by Andrew Su | Jun 11, 2013 | bioinformatics, database, long tail
As part of building the case for creating our proposed CMOD resource, we wanted to know just how quickly the number of sequenced genomes was increasing. The thinking is that the more genomes are being sequenced, the more genomes there are that are going with virtually...
by Andrew Su | Jun 8, 2013 | collective intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, database, genomics, wiki, wikipedia
Model organism databases are great. They span a spectrum of model organisms as diverse as mouse, rat, fly, worm, zebrafish, yeast, and E. coli. And they fulfill key roles for their respective communities, from warehousing key genomic data, to providing query and...
by ACarolino | Aug 9, 2012 | community-annotation, database, gene ontology, genome biology, GO, long tail
This guest post was written by Adriel Carolino, a summer intern who has been spearheading this project to create a Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD). The recent explosion of metagenomic sequencing has resulted in an immense expanse of microbial genetic...
by bgood | Nov 11, 2011 | database, Gene Wiki, NAR, publication, sulab
The articles for the annual database issue are starting to appear in the NAR collection. My favorite one this year is, immodestly perhaps, ours about the Gene Wiki! The simple message here is that the Gene Wiki is continuing to grow and that the content...
