Simon Twigger @ MCW

We are funded as part of the Gene Ontology consortium and participate in GO’s Reference Genome project with RGD’s work in this area being spearheaded by Stan Laulederkind. The consortium recently published a paper describing this project and its work annotating genes across a wide variety of species.
The Gene Ontology’s Reference Genome Project: a unified [...]

We have been doing some work using Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure (EC2, S3) as a platform for compute-intensive analyses that would normally require the purchase of a local cluster. Tailored to proteomics analysis of mass spec data, this work was recently published in the Journal of Proteomics Research.
Low cost, scalable proteomics data analysis using Amazon’s [...]

RGD’s latest publication has just come out in the January edition of Nucleic Acids Research. Entitled ‘Variation, ontologies and pathways’ the article describes the new features introduced on the Rat Genome Database over the past year including pathway diagrams, updates to the Genome browser, new physiological portals and more.

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As part of Nature’s general feature on the challenges of dealing with Big Data in modern scientific research there was an article published covering Biocuration and its associated challenges. Coming in part from the various Biocurator and International Biocurator meetings originally started from a grant awarded to Sue Rhee and Simon Twigger, this paper outlines [...]