Speaker: Rubén Fuentes Fernández Group GRASIA DSIA – UCM
Date: wednesday 2 / November /2016 12 h
Place: Sala de reuniones FI – UCM
Summary:
In the last years, the amount of genomic data produced has increased significantly. These data need to be processed and linked to biological information in order to make a meaningful use of them. Automated tools support these tasks, but their results have to be curated by experts, what creates a bottleneck. Although some collaborative community annotation efforts have attempted to address this issue, they have not been overly successful. This work carries out a social analysis of them and their tools through the Activity Theory framework, looking for limitations and potential solutions. Its conclusions are used to propose requirements for an actual annotation tool, MASSA (Multi-Agent System to Support functional Annotation), which works in functional annotation (i.e., assigning biological functions). The tool has been developed and analyzed according to state-of-the-art benchmarks in the area.
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