Benjamin Good

About my work

I am interested in understanding and building processes for creating and distributing knowledge. In particular I am driven to enable the accumulation of useful knowledge about the human genome such that that knowledge can be applied to improve the human condition. This drive has lead me on a path from cognitive science, through machine learning, to bioinformatics and most recently to ‘community intelligence’ or ‘crowdsourcing’. At Scripps I participate in the development of the following related projects:

Gene Wiki
genegames.org – especially “The Cure”
biobranch.org

Publications (pre 2013)

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Good BM, Clarke E, Loguercio S, Su AI: Building a biomedical semantic network in Wikipedia with Semantic Wiki Links. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. Vol. 2012 published online March 20, 2012, doi:10.1093/database/bar060
Good BM, Howe DG, Lin SM, Su AI: Mining the Gene Wiki for functional genomic knowledge. BMC Genomics 2011, 12:603
Good BM, Clarke E, de Alfaro L, Su AI: The Gene Wiki in 2011: community intelligence applied to human gene annotation. Nucleic Acids Research. 2011; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr925
Good BM, Loguercio S, Su AI: Linking genes to diseases with a SNPedia-Gene Wiki mashup. In: Bio-Ontologies SIG, ISMB: 15 July 2011, Vienna
Good BM and Su AI: Mining Gene Ontology Annotations From Hyperlinks in the Gene Wiki. In: AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics: 8 March 2011, San Francisco: 21-25
Good BM, Tennis JT, Wilkinson MD: Social tagging in the life sciences: characterizing a new metadata resource for bioinformatics. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(313).
Good BM, Tennis JT: Term based comparison metrics for controlled and uncontrolled indexing languages. Information Research 2009, 14(1).
Good BM, Lu P, Kawas EK, Wilkinson MD: Open semantic annotation: an experiment with BioMoby Web services. In: 2nd Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium: 24 May 2009; Kelowna, British Columbia; 2009. (not available online except as chapter 7 in my dissertation).
Good B: Strategies for amassing, characterizing, and applying third-party metadata in bioinformatics. Ph.D. dissertation. Vancouver: University of British Columbia; 2009.
Belleau F, Tourigny N, Good BM, Morissette J: Bio2RDF: A Semantic Web Atlas of post genomic knowledge about Human and Mouse. In: Data Integration in the Life Sciences: 2008; Evry, France; 2008.
Wilkinson MD, Senger M, Kawas E, Bruskiewich R, Gouzy J, Noirot C, Bardou P, Ng A, Haase D, Saiz Ede A et al: Interoperability with Moby 1.0–it’s better than sharing your toothbrush! Brief Bioinform 2008, 9(3):220-231.
Davis DP, Peay J, Good B, Sise MJ, Kennedy F, Eastman AB, Velky T, Hoyt DB: Air medical response to traumatic brain injury: a computer learning algorithm analysis. Trauma 2008, 64(4):889-897.
Bruskiewich R, Senger M, Davenport G, Ruiz M, Rouard M, Hazekamp T, Takeya M, Doi K, Satoh K, Costa M et al: The Generation Challenge Programme Platform: Semantic Standards and Workbench for Crop Science. International Journal of Plant Genomics 2008.
Good BM, Wilkinson MD: Ontology engineering using volunteer labor. In: World Wide Web Conference: 2007; Banff, Canada; 2007: 1243-1244.
Low A, Dong W, Chan D, Sing T, Swanstrom R, Jensen M, Pillai S, Good B, Harrigan P: Current V3 genotyping algorithms are inadequate for predicting X4 co-receptor usage in clinical isolates. AIDS 2007, 21(14):17-24.
Kuo BY-L, Hentrich T, Good BM, Wilkinson MD: Tag clouds for summarizing web search results. In: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web: 2007; Banff, Alberta, Canada: ACM; 2007: 1203-1204.
Song YC, Kawas E, Good BM, Wilkinson MD, Tebbutt SJ: DataBiNS: a BioMoby-based data-mining workflow for biological pathways and non-synonymous SNPs. Bioinformatics 2007, 23(6):780-782.
Good BM, Kawas EA, Wilkinson MD: Bridging the gap between social tagging and semantic annotation: E.D. the Entity Describer. In: Nature Precedings. 2007.
Good BM, Tranfield EM, Tan PC, Shehata M, Singhera GK, Gosselink J, Wilkinson MD: Fast, cheap and out of control: A zero curation model for ontology development. In: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing: January 3-7 2006; Hawaii, USA: World Scientific; 2006: 128-139.
Good BM, Wilkinson MD: The Life Sciences Semantic Web is Full of Creeps! Brief Bioinform 2006, 7(3):275-286.
Pillai SK, Pond SLK, Liu Y, Good BM, Strain MC, Ellis RJ, Letendre S, Smith DM, Gunthard HF, Grant I et al: Genetic attributes of cerebrospinal fluid-derived HIV-1 env. Brain 2006, 129(7):1872-1883.
Johannesson H, Kasuga T, Schaller RA, Good B, Gardner MJ, Townsend JP, Cole GT, Taylor JW: Phase-specific gene expression underlying morphological adaptations of the dimorphic human pathogenic fungus, Coccidioides posadasii. Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B 2006, 43(8):545-559.
Good BM, Kawas EA, Kuo BY, Wilkinson MD: iHOPerator: User-scripting a personalized bioinformatics Web, starting with the iHOP website. BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:534.
Naviaux RK, Good B, McPherson JD, Steffen DL, Markusic D, Ransom B, Corbeil J: Sand DNA – a genetic library of life at the water’s edge. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 2005, 301:9-22.
Pillai SK, Good B, Pond SK, Wong JK, Strain MC, Richman DD, Smith DM: Semen-specific genetic characteristics of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 env. Journal of Virology 2005, 79(3):1734-1742.
Strain MC, Letendre S, Pillai SK, Russell T, Ignacio CC, Gunthard HF, Good B, Smith DM, Wolinsky SM, Furtado M et al: Genetic composition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in cerebrospinal fluid and blood without treatment and during failing antiretroviral therapy. Journal of Virology 2005, 79(3):1772-1788.
Pillai S, Good B, Richman D, Corbeil J: A new perspective on V3 phenotype prediction. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2003, 19(2):145-149.
Leigh Brown AJ, Frost SDW, Good BM, Daar ES, Simon V, Markowitz M, Collier AC, Connick E, Conway B, Margolick JB et al: Genetic basis of hypersusceptibility to protease inhibitors and low replicative capacity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 strains in primary infection. Journal of Virology 2004, 78(5):2242-2246.
Leigh Brown AJ, Good BM, Frost SD, Collier AC, Connick E, Conway B, Daar E, Kilby M, Routy JP, Margolick JB et al: Analysing the genotypic basis of hypersusceptibility to amprenavir in HIV from antiretroviral-naive patients. Antiviral Therapy 2002, 7:S42-S42.
Good BM, Peay J, Corbeil J: Class Prediction Based on Gene Expression: Applying Neural Networks via a Genetic Algorithm Wrapper. In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Late Breaking Papers: 2001; San Francisco; 2001: 122-130.
Starr B, Chaudhri VK, Katz B, Good BM, Thomere J: A Query Interface and Integrated Knowledge Environment for HPKB. In: Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Eleventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence: 1999; Orlando, Florida, USA: AAAI Press / The MIT Press; 1999: 927-928.

Education

Ph.D., Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia
MS, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
BS, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

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I’m an avid, though not very talented, surfer and bodyboarder, cyclist, volleyball player, and child wrangler…

About my work

Publications (pre 2013)

Education

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