Duncan Hull

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@Duncan. Funny because its true. :) - Andrew Lang

Developing complete and consistent models of metabolism for bacterial organisms. - Duncan Hull

The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium (http://www.geneontology.org) (GOC) continues to develop, maintain and use a set of structured, controlled vocabularies for the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences. The GO ontologies are expanding both in content and in structure. Several new relationship types have been introduced and used, along with existing relationships, to create links between and within the GO domains. These improve the representation of biology, facilitate querying, and allow GO developers to systematically check for and correct inconsistencies within the GO. Gene product annotation using GO continues to increase both in the number of total annotations and in species coverage. GO tools, such as OBO-Edit, an ontology-editing tool, and AmiGO, the GOC ontology browser, have seen major improvements in functionality, speed and ease of use. - Duncan Hull

Smart people work where it counts. This statement must be a contradiction, one way or another. - Chris Lasher

@Chris Alan's words, not mine. He's got a point though... - Duncan Hull

There are too many people converting between OBO and OWL --Daniel Miranker http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users... - Duncan Hull

Summary: SBML is the leading exchange format for mathematical models in Systems Biology. Semantic annotations connect model elements with external knowledge via unique database identifiers and ontology terms, enabling software to check and process models by their biochemical meaning. Such information is essential for model merging, one of the key steps toward the construction of large kinetic models. The tool semanticSBML helps users to check and edit MIRIAM annotations and SBO terms in SBML models. Using a large collection of biochemical names and database identifiers, it supports modellers in finding the right annotations and in merging existing models. Initially, an element matching is derived from the MIRIAM annotations and conflicting element attributes are categorised and highlighted. Conflicts can be resolved automatically or manually, allowing the user to control the merging process in detail. Availability: SemanticSBML is free software written in Python and released under the... more... - Duncan Hull

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Scholar predicts change as university history prompts reflection. Melanie Newman reports The University of Cambridge will shift its focus from undergraduate to postgraduate students as it evolves over the coming decades, an academic has predicted. Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge and a member of its governing council, said the university is likely to move from having two undergraduates for every postgraduate to having two or more postgraduates for every undergraduate. Such a change would bring Cambridge into line with some of the US' most prestigious universities. - Duncan Hull