December 31, 2007

Reflections on 2007

I have recently been reflecting on the status of the Project to Annotate 1000 Genomes and in this short essay I will argue that it has been an overwhelming success due to issues that became apparent only as the project progressed.   I am writing this on the last day of 2007, which certainly proved to be a remarkable year.   A thousand more-or-less complete genomes now exist, a framework for rapidly annotating new genomes with remarkable accuracy is now functioning, and we are on the verge of another major shift in the world of annotations.  Let me try to clarify these remarks before proceeding to the celebration this evening.

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February 28, 2005

History of FIG is Available

A Timeline showing the intertwined careers of the various FIG Fellows and a partial list of the papers on which they collaborated is now available on our new history page.

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February 10, 2005

Web Site Goes Live

The new FIG web site is up and running!

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February 1, 2005

Late January 2005 Newsletter

  • Development of the NMPDR
  • The Manifesto
  • The SEED Developers Meeting in Chicago in October
  • Workshops, Tutorials, etc.
  • News Releases, etc.
  • The More Important Release: the Subsystems

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October 17, 2004

In-Between Fall 2004 Newsletter

  • Developers Meeting
  • Meeting Agenda

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September 2, 2004

August 2004 Newsletter

  • The SEED Developers Meeting in Chicago in October
  • The Subsystems Effort: How it is Shaping Up
  • The iBook: a Minor Technical Note
  • Leading to a Proposed Annotation Environment
  • Tutorials
  • The Funding Situation

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July 19, 2004

July 2004 Newsletter

  • The SEED Developers Meeting in Bielefeld
  • Subsystem Tutorials
  • The Subsystems Forum
  • Gene Calling
  • Computational Servers

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June 25, 2004

June 2004 Newsletter

  • Subsystem Development and the Project to Annotate 1000 Genomes
  • SEED Developers Meeting
  • Funding of SEED Development

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April 29, 2004

April 2004 Newsletter

  • The next meeting of SEED Developers
  • Subsystem Annotations

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March 3, 2004

March 2004 Newsletter

  • The End of the Development Stage
  • The Initial Deployment Stage
  • The Project to Annotate 1000 Genomes

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