Submissions tagged with bioinformatics
(39 documents)
Normalization and Matching of Chemical Compound Names
The identification of a chemical compound solely based on its name requires comprehensive chemical knowledge and often extensive searches in chemical databases. However, it is crucial for the integ…
Received 04 June 2009 16:05 UTC; Posted 05 June 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Bioinformatics
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
Literature Triage and Indexing in the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) Group
The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI; http://www.informatics.jax.org) group is comprised of several collaborating projects including the Mouse Genome Database (MGD) Pr…
Received 13 May 2009 16:01 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Bioinformatics
Biocuration Workflow Catalogue
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 18:00 UTC; Posted 13 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Cancer Biology Data Curation at the Mouse Tumor Biology Database (MTB)
Many advances in the field of cancer biology have been made using mouse models of human cancer. The Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB, http://tumor.informatics.jax.org) da…
Received 13 May 2009 15:27 UTC; Posted 13 May 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
MitoWheel, visualizing the human mitochondrial genome
So far researchers, web users were restricted to non-intuitive and visually poor text based databases every time they wanted to take a look on the mitochondrial DNA and find a region of interest. B…
Received 07 May 2009 14:40 UTC; Posted 07 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Reflect: Augmented Browsing for the Life Scientist
Anyone who regularly reads life science literature often comes across names of genes, proteins, or small molecules that they would like to know more about. To make this process easier, we have deve…
Received 02 May 2009 01:44 UTC; Posted 04 May 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Chemistry, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Expert Assertions Through Community Annotation Jamborees
Although there is significant optimism that community involvement can drive genome curation, results to date are disappointing. The Human Genome and Saccharomyces Genome Databases both tried commun…
Received 24 April 2009 15:33 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Increasing Access To Bioinformatics Resources: Increase Community Curation by Increasing Your Community
The amount of biological data has risen exponentially over the last decade. Along with this rise, the number and types of bioinformatics resources has risen such that the sheer number of bioinforma…
Received 23 April 2009 19:00 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, 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
