Latest Presentations
Online Training of New Curators
The basic information in Reactome is provided by bench biologists who are experts on a particular pathway, the Reactome Team is always working hard to drive engagement. This engagement between expe…
Received 10 July 2009 19:14 UTC; Posted 13 July 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Absolute Aqueous Redox Potentials ( via a new link between aqueous and gaseous properties)
The new finding here, that the conventional standard potentials (based on S.H.E.) are linearly dependent on ionization potentials, has yielded the absolute values of aqueous standard potentials.
Received 03 July 2009 12:57 UTC; Posted 06 July 2009
Posted to: Chemistry
An evaluation of taxonomic name finding & next steps in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) developments
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of natural history libraries that are actively scanning scientific literature from their collections and publishing the digiti…
Received 25 June 2009 18:15 UTC; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment
BrainGrab: Capturing Curator Expertise as Reusable Annotation Rules
Experienced biocurators can outperform automated systems on specific genes once they determine which pieces of evidence should drive annotation, and which annotations should be spread. The annotati…
Received 03 June 2009 15:35 UTC; Posted 03 June 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Using Textpresso for Information Retrieval, Fact Extraction
Ten years ago WormBase1 started as a repository for sequence data for the modelorganism Caenorhabditis elegans and has since striven to include the curation of allgenetic and molecular data p…
Received 01 June 2009 17:44 UTC; Posted 02 June 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Spatiotemporal regime of climate and streamflow in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin
We analyzed interannual and seasonal regimes of river runoff, precipitation, and air temperature for three nested regions: (1) the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, (2) the U.S. portion of the Great Lak…
Received 26 May 2009 16:24 UTC; Posted 27 May 2009
Posted to: Earth & Environment
Digital BioCuration: A Question of Balance
Curation of biomedical data has come to encompass a broad range of activities and considerations, which include the building of digital archives, making decisions on the relative value and longevit…
Received 26 May 2009 15:37 UTC; Posted 26 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Bioinformatics
First Hematological Signals of Latent Anemia to Aging Population
Anemia is an independent risk factor for morbidity and mortality in an array of disorders common to seniors including cancer, renal diseases and heart diseases. The aim of this study was to identi…
Received 26 May 2009 08:32 UTC; Posted 26 May 2009
Posted to: Chemistry
Integrating Text Mining into the MGI Biocuration Workflow
A major challenge for the development of resources for functional and comparative genomics is the extraction of data from the biomedical literature. Although text retrieval and extraction for biol…
Received 20 May 2009 11:36 UTC; Posted 20 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Studying Biocuration Workflows
As the first phase of a knowledge engineering study of biocuration workflows, we performed a preliminary task-modeling exercise on seven separate bioinformatics systems. This involved constructing …
Received 13 May 2009 17:48 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
