Gene-disease annotation with Mobianga

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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Social machines at ISMB 2012

This year's 20th annual conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) was a busy one for me and the rest of the Su Lab.  As a group of 5, we were responsible for 4 oral presentations, three posters, and the administration of one special session.  Keeping that all together while catching up with old and new friends was a fun, though exhausting experience.  And...
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Cloud presentation on BioGPS and mygene.info

Last week, I gave a talk at the Cloud Computing Symposium of the Molecular Med Tri-Con conference. It was an interesting line up of speakers on all aspects of cloud computing, and got a chance to catch up with several familiar faces. Slides are now posted at Slideshare. [slideshare...
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Soliciting abstracts for SLAS 2012

Even though the official deadline has passed, the informatics track at SLAS 2012 is still open to receiving additional submissions for potential podium and/or poster presentations. If you’re interested in coming to San Diego in February 2012 for this fantastic conference, let’s hear from you! The informatics track will roughly focus on three areas: integrative genomics,...
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CouchDB talk at X-Gen Congress & Expo

We have another upcoming BioGPS talk in store! I will be presenting at the X-Gen Congress & Expo (March 14-18, San Diego) on the technical side of our previous migration from a relational database to the document-oriented CouchDB. The talk will be on March 15 under the “Data Storage and Database management” section with the title Gene Annotation Data in a “Schema-Free”...
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Upcoming Gene Wiki presentations — SBS and Bio-Ontologies

Following on the last post about our upcoming presentation at Bio-IT World, I realized that I should also highlight two other upcoming presentations. These two presentations will be on the Gene Wiki, and specifically on our efforts to mine novel gene annotations out of Gene Wiki data. On March 29 in Orlando, I will be chairing and speaking at the session on data mining at SBS 2011. The session...
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