Submissions tagged with biocuration
(51 documents)
Text mining for Swiss-Prot curation: A story of success and failure
A text mining group has been set up at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, with objective to develop and adapt information retrieval and extraction tools to help Swiss-Prot curators in their dai…
Received 24 April 2009 09:36 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
IMGT/GENE-DB: genomic reference sequences for human and mouse IG and TR genes and alleles
The immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) major loci span about 6 Megabases (Mb) of the human genome on chromosomes 2, 7, 14 and 22, and 9 Mb in mouse on chromosomes 6, 12, 13, 14 and 16. Th…
Received 23 April 2009 13:26 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Bioinformatics
The Gene Ontology’s Reference Genome Project: A Unified Framework for Functional Annotation across Species
Complete functional annotation of genomes is a powerful tool for researchers; however, such annotation is a time-consuming task limited by the availability of experimental data. The function of gen…
Received 22 April 2009 22:47 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Xenopus and Zebrafish Annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB)
The African clawed frog Xenopus laevis and the zebrafish Danio rerio have both proved to be good model organisms for studying early vertebrate cellular and developmental biology. More recently, the…
Received 23 April 2009 10:30 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Community Outreach through Genomics Education Partnership
The J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has recently partnered with undergraduate university faculty to expand the scope of education and outreach program as part of the NIAID’s BRC initiative, by join…
Received 22 April 2009 20:10 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
SGN Database: From QTLs to Genomes
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis is used to dissect the genetic basis underlying polygenic traits. Several public databases have been storing and making QTL data available to research communi…
Received 23 April 2009 14:11 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
The Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) Database
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a well-established, structured vocabulary that has been successfully used for 10 years in the annotation of proteins. GO terms, created in consultation with the biology co…
Received 23 April 2009 10:42 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Data submission and curation for caArray, a standard based microarray data repository system
caArray is an open-source, open development, web and programmatically accessible array data management system developed at National Cancer Institute. It was developed to support the exchange of arr…
Received 22 April 2009 14:16 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Bioinformatics
Beyond Structure: KiSAO and TEDDY—Two Ontologies Addressing Pragmatical and Dynamical Aspects of Computational Models in Systems Biology
Computational models are becoming more and more the central scientific paradigm for understanding the complexity of living systems. With the increasing number and size of these models there is a gr…
Received 22 April 2009 13:57 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative
Gene Ontology (GO) provides a controlled vocabulary, which is used by several groups around the world to provide functional annotation to proteins across a wide range of species (“www.geneontology….
Received 22 April 2009 13:32 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
