Molecular Predictor Repository? (not gene set repository)

Posted by on Apr 27, 2013 in bioinformatics, classification, gene expression, microaray, sage, sulab, synapse, web services | 1 comment I have a simple question.  Say that I have the results from a gene expression analysis done in my laboratory or pulled from a public repository.  Say the sample has something to do with cancer (or I think that it might).  Say I read about so called 'signatures' that have been found to be associated with key phenotypes related to cancer.  (Here is a list of 13...
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GSoC recap for Crowdsourcing Biology team at TSRI

Posted by on Dec 5, 2012 in GSoC, sulab | 0 comments (As presented on the Google Open Source Blog)The Crowdsourcing Biology team at the Scripps Research Institute participated in the Google Summer of Code for the first time this year.  Five students contributed to efforts to harness the power of community intelligence to advance biomedical science.Maximilian Ludvigsson took the first steps in the creation of Semantic BioGPS.  BioGPS is a...
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Gene-disease annotation with Mobianga

Posted by on Nov 2, 2012 in ASHG, conference, games, genegames, gwaps, mobianga, student, sulab | 0 comments Over the summer, an enterprising high school student named Nishant Mandapaty approached our research group about doing a project with us.  He found us through the "Crowdsourcing Biology" group that we created for the Google Summer of Code program.  To make a long story short, he has been doing good work for us ever since, quickly learning what he needs to on his own. His primary...
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Results from the Cancer Biology game: The Cure

Posted by on Oct 29, 2012 in breast cancer, feature selection, games, genegames, gwaps, machine learning, sage, sulab, thecure | 0 comments Building intelligent systems for biologyOur research group has been exploring the concept of serious games for several months now.  Aside from providing nerdy entertainment, our games collect (and distribute) biological knowledge from broad audiences of players.  The hypothesis underlying this work is that, by capturing knowledge in forms suitable for computation, these games make it...
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The Cure Round 2 underway

Posted by on Oct 3, 2012 in breast cancer, cancer, games, genegames, gwaps, sulab | 0 comments Come see a fresh new interface and a more challenging set of boards in round 2 of The Cure!http://genegames.org/cure/Will Barney defeat us?  Only you can stop him!The SAGE challenge finishes in two weeks and we need you to play to show what The Cure can do!Play...
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