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June 13, 2011 The Gaggle Systems Bioinformatics Workshop 2011

The Institute for Systems Biology hosted a workshop focusing on interoperability between bioinformatics software tools, bringing together over 40 software developers and scientists for discussion and collaboration. The format was one day of talks, followed on the second day, by a hackathon, a forum for coding, discussion, informal presentations and collaboration.

Thanks to all who participated!

Visit the workshop site for more information.

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May 28, 2011 Gaggle-JSON prototype

A prototype implementation of Gaggle data types encoded in JSON is available at gaggle-json.systemsbiology.net. Additional prototyping of support for HTTP and JSON transport in the Gaggle Boss is available in Wei-ju Wu's Github repo.

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May 20, 2011 miRvestigator Framework is now published

miRvestigator is a web application to identify miRNAs responsible for co-regulated gene expression patterns discovered through transcriptome profiling.

miRvestigator was published in the Webserver issue of Nucleic Acid Research.

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May 09, 2011 The Big Science Challenge With Biofuel: A Chat with ISB’s Nitin Baliga

Talk to any biofuels entrepreneur, and you are likely to hear a passionate riff on why their technology trumps all the up-and-comers.

Some, like San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, say you’ve got to harness free sunlight and the magic of photosynthesis, to grow oil-rich algae in open ponds at the scale of modern agriculture.

 

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December 02, 2010 High School Students send an experiment aboard the last Space Shuttle

Ballard High School Students have partnered with Baliga Lab to send an experiment aboard the last space shuttle mission.  Ballard's experiment will launch a population of E. coli into space to test for changes, such as mutations, plasmid uptake ability and growth rate, while it grows for two weeks in microgravity.

 

Read article in KOMO news

 

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October 26, 2010 The Gaggle Systems Bioinformatics Workshop 2011

Building on the success of the previous Gaggle workshops, the 2011 workshop will bring together software developers and scientists to promote interoperability among bioinformatics software and databases and to explore opportunities for collaboration between developers and users of computing tools in the systems biology domain.

Visit the workshop site for more information.

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August 11, 2010 Gaggle Genome Browser featured on OpenHelix blog

The OpenHelix blog features a screencast on the Gaggle Genome Browser:

Tip of the Week: Gaggle Genome Browser

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August 05, 2010 Introduction to Systems Biology Course 2010

The Introduction to Systems Biology course was held at ISB in Seattle the week of August 2, 2010. Topics covered included proteomics, DNA microarrays, and network inference integrating bench work with computational biology.

Data analysis was performed using Gaggle software tools.

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July 22, 2010 Gaggle Genome Browser paper published

 

The Gaggle Genome Browser joins heterogeneous data by their location on the genome to create information-rich visualizations yielding insight into genome organization, transcription and its regulation.

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July 13, 2010 Gaggle Tool Creator (GTC) published in Source Code for Biology and Medicine

 

A paper on the Gaggle Tool Creator (GTC) was published in Source Code for Biology and Medicine. GTC: A web server for integrating systems biology data with web tools and desktop applications.

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