A team of biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a whole free living organism.

The Firegoose paper ranked second-most viewed on BMC Bioinformatics website.

The Firegoose: two-way integration of diverse data from different bioinformatics web resources with desktop applications was published in BMC Bioinformatics.

The paper describes the Firegoose, a toolbar for the Firefox browser that allows data exchange between the Gaggle and popular bioinformatics websites and web services.

On Monday, October 29th, 2007, we released a new version of the Gaggle API.

Members of the Gaggle community met at the ISB in Seattle.

Participants represented Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington, New York University, Ohio State University, University of Zurich, The University of Tennessee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Battelle, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Please see the workshop 2007 website and wiki.

Right here in Seattle, at the Institute for Systems Biology, Dr. Nitin Baliga and his group are taking a systems level approach to understand how organisms respond to complex changes in their environment.

The problem is that there are many types, formats and dimensions of data, and, therefore as many or even more  types of software. Its a two-fold problem.

Genome Technology gave the Gaggle framework a writeup in With Repository Overload, Researchers Try New Ways to Integrate.

It seems clear to me that the key to building effective eScience environments is doing just what this Gaggle of bioinformatics researchers have done: stitch together small best-of-breed modules into a cohesive whole, rather than build a monolithic application.

Gaggle manuscript ranked in the top 100 (#49) "Most influential publications in high-throughput screening" in 2006

BMC Bioinformatics published The Gaggle: An open-source software system for integrating bioinformatics software and data sources by Paul T Shannon, David J Reiss, Richard Bonneau and Nitin S Baliga.

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