Distribution of GO annotations among human genes

by | 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...

Sequenced genomes per year

by | 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...

Twenty questions for genes

by | 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...