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Biocuration 2012

  Great meeting:  Biocuration 2012, Georgetown University, DC.  When I leave a meeting with my head exploding with new ideas and a need to try them all out at once, I know I got my money’s worth, and then some. Even a three hour flight delay followed by discovering my car with a dead battery [...]

CACAO: Community Assessment of Community Annotation with Ontologies

I’m at College Station airport, Texas, waiting for my delayed flight and hope that the weather in Dallas lets up within the hour. A good time to take a break and blog. College Station is the home of Texas A&M University, which is a place I am always happy to visit. The scientists here are [...]

Gene and protein annotation: it’s worse than you thought

Sequencing centers keep pumping large amounts of sequence data into the omics-sphere (will I get a New Worst omics Word Award for this?)  There is no way we can annotate even a small fraction of those experimentally and indeed most  annotations are automatic, done bioinformatically. Typically function is inferred by homology: if the protein sequence [...]