Academy of health sciences and other things
As part of my continued interest in the educational needs of the health science community for bioinformatics resources, I have... Continue reading →
Compute resources for teaching
We (Amy Sheide and myself) were awarded funds to host our Hands-on Bioinformatics Experience teaching material on XSEDE. This is a... Continue reading →
biocuration conference 2017
Nicole Ruiz will be presenting a poster: hgvs-eval: automated evaluation suite to assess HGVS-formatting tools at the biocuration conference at the... Continue reading →
VMC workshop
I attended a productive 2 day GA4GH Variation Modeling Collaboration workshop in Cambridge, to continue development of the model and... Continue reading →
Teaching grant and galaxy workshop
In late October I was awarded a teaching grant from the University of Utah Teaching Committee, to incorporate the use... Continue reading →
Shale defended thesis
Shale Dames successfully defended his thesis: Development of a Clinical Next generation Sequencing Assay for Mitochondrial Disorders on Wednesday. He... Continue reading →
GA4GH Variant Modeling Collaboration
I have been virtually attending the GA4GH Variant Modeling Collaboration meeting in Boston, bringing together ClinGen, GA4GH, HL7, FHIR, NCBI and... Continue reading →
Taxonomer update
The manuscript describing Taxonomer is finally out in Genome Biology:Taxonomer: an interactive metagenomics analysis portal for universal pathogen detection and... Continue reading →
Graduation
Two students from the lab walked on Friday at the graduation ceremony. Congrats to Shale Dames and Paris Vail, and... Continue reading →
OmniSearch paper out in Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Jingshan Huang, Fernando Gutierrez, Harrison J. Strachan, Dejing Dou, Weili Huang, Barry Smith, Judith A. Blake, Karen Eilbeck, Darren A.... Continue reading →