by Andrew Su | May 29, 2014 | code, GO, long tail
Recently, someone emailed me to ask how I got the data behind this figure that I often use in the introductions of my talks: This figure shows that while there are few genes that are very well annotated (100s of GO annotations manually annotated by biocurators), that...
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 Andrew Su | Sep 23, 2011 | community intelligence, games, GO, long tail
Part 1: Introduction to the concept Part 2: The prototype game (this post) Part 3: Evaluation framework We recently posted on this blog the idea of creating a computer engine to play the game 20 questions. But instead of asking users to thing of common objects in the...
by Andrew Su | Jul 26, 2011 | community intelligence, games, GO, long tail
Part 1: Introduction to the concept (this post) Part 2: The prototype game Part 3: Evaluation framework If I asked you to think of your favorite gene, do you think I could guess the identity of that gene by first asking you twenty yes / no questions? I personally...
