The Centralized Model Organism Database

This guest post was written by Adriel Carolino, a summer intern who has been spearheading this project to create a Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD). The recent explosion of metagenomic sequencing has resulted in an immense expanse of microbial genetic information.  Current metagenomic analyses typically revolve around a taxonomic survey — describing what microbial species are...
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Community Intelligence session at ISMB 2012

Looking for something to do in Long Beach, California on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 17, 2012 ?  Stop by the special session on Community Intelligence in Bioinformatics at this year's conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB)!We have four distinguished speakers lined up:Alex Bateman will discuss the use of Wikipedia in RFAM, PFAM and the rest of science.Alex Pico will...
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