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October 31, Dr. Helen Parkinson of the European Bioinformatics Institute to Speak on Integration of Human and Mouse Phenotype Data
SYNOPSIS:
The presentation will cover two major resources containing phenotype data and will discuss issues involving the integration of human and model-organism phenotype data. The generation of an interactive map of human phenotype data associated with GWAS data will first be explored, followed by the presentation of data resources that form part of the Knockout Mouse Project 2, which is funded by the NIH, the European Union, the Wellcome Trust, Canada, and the Texas Enterprise Fund (http://commonfund.nih.gov/KOMP2/).
BIO:
Helen Parkinson’s Ph.D. work was devoted to studying Circadian rhythms in Drosophila. She then worked on a positional cloning project for primary pulmonary hypertension and diagnostic-test development for hypophosphatasia. Dr. Parkinson moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute in 2000 where she leads the Functional Genomics Production Team. Her group of 15 scientists provides content for the ArrayExpress, Gene Expression Atlas, and Biosamples databases; develops open-source management and integration software; supports users of these resources; and develops and applies ontologies, primarily the Experimental Factor Ontology, to these data. Her research interests include the development of ontologies, data integration using RDF and meta-analyses of gene-expression data, and the development of automated data-curation processes.
Dr. Parkinson works collaboratively with 10 NIH and EC consortia to manage, integrate and analyse functional genomics datasets, including
A list of recent publications and presentations is available from Dr. Parkinson’s group pages:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fgpt/publications.html
The Parkinson team 2011 Annual Report provides more information:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Groups/reports/current/parkinson.pdf