SGD Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2015 - Revision history

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‎Workshop: Getting More out of SGD

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‎What did we do over the summer?

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 ===Workshop: ''Getting More out of SGD''===
 <p> '''Date:''' Sunday, September 6th, 4PM<br>
-'''Featured Topics''': Yeast-human functional complementation data, the new Variant Viewer, new data in YeastMine <br>
+'''Featured Topics''': New yeast-human functional complementation data, the new Variant Viewer, new data in YeastMine <br>
 </p>
 <p>Find these SGD staff members at the Workshop and the Exhibit table:

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 ==Upcoming meetings==
 # Cell Biology of Yeasts Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. Maria Costanzo and Marek Skrzypek will be at the [https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=YEAST&year=15 Cell Biology of Yeasts Meeting] to showcase what's new at SGD. Come find us at the exhibit table!
-# At the end of August, Prof. Mike Cherry and Rama Balakrishnan (Senior Biocuration Scientist) will be attending the [http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/2015_Washington_DC_GOC_Meeting_Agenda GO Consortium meeting] in Washington DC.  In addition, they will both attend the first [http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/2015_Washington_DC_GOC_Symposium_Agenda GO Consortium Symposium day], on September 1, which will be open to the research community and functional analysis tool providers.
+# At the end of August, Mike Cherry and Rama Balakrishnan will be attending the [http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/2015_Washington_DC_GOC_Meeting_Agenda GO Consortium meeting] in Washington DC.  In addition, they will both attend the first [http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/2015_Washington_DC_GOC_Symposium_Agenda GO Consortium Symposium day], on September 1, which will be open to the research community and functional analysis tool providers.
 ==Yeast-Human Functional Complementation Data Now in SGD==

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 ==Upcoming meetings==
-# Cell Biology of Yeasts Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. SGD staff will be at the [https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=YEAST&year=15 Cell Biology of Yeasts Meeting] to showcase what's new at SGD. Come find us at the exhibit table!
+# Cell Biology of Yeasts Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. Maria Costanzo and Marek Skrzypek will be at the [https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=YEAST&year=15 Cell Biology of Yeasts Meeting] to showcase what's new at SGD. Come find us at the exhibit table!
 # At the end of August, Prof. Mike Cherry and Rama Balakrishnan (Senior Biocuration Scientist) will be attending the [http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/2015_Washington_DC_GOC_Meeting_Agenda GO Consortium meeting] in Washington DC.  In addition, they will both attend the first [http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/2015_Washington_DC_GOC_Symposium_Agenda GO Consortium Symposium day], on September 1, which will be open to the research community and functional analysis tool providers.

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 # Stacia Engel, Senior Biocuration Scientist and Curation Group Leader at SGD, gave a [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Eighth_International_Biocuration_Conference presentation] on "Homology Curation at SGD: budding yeast as a model for eukaryotic biology" at the [http://biocuration2015.big.ac.cn Eighth International Biocuration Conference] at Beijing.
 # Travis Sheppard, a Senior Software Developer at SGD, attended the [https://www.react-europe.org/2015.html React.js Europe] conference at Paris to learn more about techniques, best practices, and emerging technologies related to the use of React.js in web development and user interfaces. Travis also attended the [http://eyeofestival.com Eyeo Festival] in Minneapolis to gain insight into the processes used by designers for data visualization.
-# Kalpana Karra, a Senior Software Developer at SGD, attended the InterMine All Hands meeting at Toronto to collaborate and learn about the new features in the InterMine software.
+# Kalpana Karra, a Senior Software Developer at SGD, attended the InterMine All Hands meeting at Toronto to collaborate and learn about the new features in the [http://intermine.org InterMine] software.
 ==Recent Publications by SGD staff==
 #Skrzypek MS, Nash RS (2015) Biocuration at the Saccharomyces Genome Database. Genesis. 2015 Aug;53(8):450-7. doi: 10.1002/dvg.22862. Epub 2015 Jul 3. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25997651 '''PMID: 25997651''']
 #Song G, Dickins BJ, Demeter J, Engel S, Gallagher J, Dunn B, Cherry JM (2015) AGAPE (Automated Genome Analysis PipelinE) for Pan-Genome Analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 17;10(3):e0120671. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120671. eCollection 2015.  [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25781462  '''PMID: 25781462''']

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 # Robert Nash, a Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD, presented a [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Yeast_Genetics_and_Genomics tutorial] at the [http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=c-yeas&year=15 YEAST GENETICS & GENOMICS] course at [http://www.cshl.edu CSHL], on what types of data are available at SGD, and how to use YeastMine.
 # Edith Wong, a Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD, gave a [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Fungal_Genetics_Meeting presentation] on "The Power of SGD" at the [http://www.genetics-gsa.org/fungal/2015/ Fungal Genetics Meeting] at Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA.  Edith also attended the [http://gm.asm.org/index.php/meeting/asm2015 American Society of Microbiology (ASM) meeting].
-# Rama Balakrishnan, Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD was a member of the Trainee BootCamp at the [http://www.genetics-gsa.org/fungal/2015/ Fungal Genetics Meeting] at Asilomar Conference Center; Pacific Grove, CA. She also gave [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Eighth_International_Biocuration_Conference presentations] at the [http://biocuration2015.big.ac.cn Eighth International Biocuration Conference] at Beijing.
+# Rama Balakrishnan, Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD was a member of the Trainee BootCamp at the [http://www.genetics-gsa.org/fungal/2015/ Fungal Genetics Meeting] at Asilomar Conference Center; Pacific Grove, CA. Rama also gave [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Eighth_International_Biocuration_Conference presentations] at the [http://biocuration2015.big.ac.cn Eighth International Biocuration Conference] at Beijing.
 # Stacia Engel, Senior Biocuration Scientist and Curation Group Leader at SGD, gave a [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Eighth_International_Biocuration_Conference presentation] on "Homology Curation at SGD: budding yeast as a model for eukaryotic biology" at the [http://biocuration2015.big.ac.cn Eighth International Biocuration Conference] at Beijing.
-# Travis Sheppard, a Senior Software Developer at SGD, attended the [https://www.react-europe.org/2015.html React.js Europe] conference at Paris to learn more about techniques, best practices, and emerging technologies related to the use of React.js in web development and user interfaces. He also attended the [http://eyeofestival.com Eyeo Festival] in Minneapolis to gain insight into the processes used by designers for data visualization.
+# Travis Sheppard, a Senior Software Developer at SGD, attended the [https://www.react-europe.org/2015.html React.js Europe] conference at Paris to learn more about techniques, best practices, and emerging technologies related to the use of React.js in web development and user interfaces. Travis also attended the [http://eyeofestival.com Eyeo Festival] in Minneapolis to gain insight into the processes used by designers for data visualization.
 # Kalpana Karra, a Senior Software Developer at SGD, attended the InterMine All Hands meeting at Toronto to collaborate and learn about the new features in the InterMine software.

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 ==What did we do over the summer?==
-# Robert Nash, a Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD, presented a tutorial at the [http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=c-yeas&year=15 YEAST GENETICS & GENOMICS] course at [http://www.cshl.edu CSHL], on what types of data are available at SGD, and how to use YeastMine. [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive Slides from his presentation] are available at SGD.
+# Robert Nash, a Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD, presented a [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Yeast_Genetics_and_Genomics tutorial] at the [http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=c-yeas&year=15 YEAST GENETICS & GENOMICS] course at [http://www.cshl.edu CSHL], on what types of data are available at SGD, and how to use YeastMine.
 # Edith Wong, a Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD, gave a presentation on "The Power of SGD" at the [http://www.genetics-gsa.org/fungal/2015/ Fungal Genetics Meeting] at Asilomar Conference Center; Pacific Grove, CA and attended the [http://gm.asm.org/index.php/meeting/asm2015 American Society of Microbiology (ASM) meeting].
 # Rama Balakrishnan, Senior Biocuration Scientist at SGD was a member of the Trainee BootCamp at the [http://www.genetics-gsa.org/fungal/2015/ Fungal Genetics Meeting] at Asilomar Conference Center; Pacific Grove, CA. She also gave [http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/SGD_Poster_Archive#Eighth_International_Biocuration_Conference presentations] at the [http://biocuration2015.big.ac.cn Eighth International Biocuration Conference] at Beijing.