The Proteome Browser mentioned in WIRED

The Proteome Browser being developed by the AP32 team at Monash University for the global proteomics community has been mentioned in an article about the Human Proteome in "The WIRED World in 2013" - a 'what's hot in 2013' special issue from WIRED magazine:

The full issue is:

• downloadable from within the Wired UK app on iTunes/Kindle/Android

• downloadable from tinyurl.com/wiredworld2013

• on sale in shops now

The Proteome Browser has been featured in Australian Life Scientist and demonstrated at the HUPO World Congress in Boston

One of our Apps projects, the "Proteome Browser", which is being developed for the International Proteomics Community by Monash University, was featured in a recent article in Australian Life Scientist in which Prof Ian Smith was interviewed about the Chromosome-centric Human Proteome Project (C-HPP) initiative and The Proteome Browser. 

Click on the link above to read the article (a pdf version is also available from the AP32 project blog).

Additionally, the Proteome Browser was recently demonstrated by Prof Ed Nice and Rob Goode from the Monash team at the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) 11th Annual World Congress in Boston. Check out the pics on the AP32 Proteome Browser blog of Ed and Rob in action.

Recorded ANDS presentations from Apps Day #2

If you were at Apps Community Day #2 in Melbourne you will have noticed the talks were being recorded, including the following presentations from the ANDS staff:

Topic	Presenter	Recording	Slides
ANDS and Apps background, ANDS expectations around Demonstrations of Value	Andrew Treloar	video	slides
ANDS Data Model and high-level RIF-CS overview	Andrew Treloar	video	slides
ANDS project lifecycle and process	Jeff Christiansen	video	slides
ANDS Core Deliverables	Stefanie Kethers	video	slides
ANDS Supporting services and Who can Help?	Andrew Treloar	video	slides
Apps RIF-CS and how to make manual sample RIF-CS records in RDA	Jeff Christiansen	video	slides

NOTE: The recordings of our partners discussing their projects (from both Apps Day #1 and #2) can be found by following the links on the 'list of projects' page

Tropical Data Hub Launch at JCU

Senator Chris Evans, the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, recently launched the Tropical Data Hub (TDH), http://tropicaldatahub.org, at James Cook University in Townsville. The Tropical Data Hub aims to provide research-relevant data and information related to the Tropics worldwide. ANDS has provided funding for the TDH through the Apps program, with additional funding from the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation, QCIF.

Ming and I were involved in some background help to JCU in preparation to the launch, including identifying outstanding records related to the Tropics in RDA, and providing comments on the TDH Web site. We now know a lot about Tropical records in RDA!

Thanks to Catherine Brady from ANDS, there is also now a Tropic Topic page in Research Data Australia, showcasing collections, parties and activities related to the Tropics.

Notably, Professor Steve Williams talked about the importance of the TDH data to his research and Professor Tom Burkot talked about the role the TDH has in the interface of his malaria research and policy based decisions.

Here are some links to the media coverage of the Tropical Data Hub Launch:

‘Silicon Valley’ of Oz: Townsville Bulletin, June 6th, 2012: http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2012/06/06/336271_news.html

ABC news, June 06, 2012: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-06/website-hub-to-gather-tropical-research/4055292

DIISRTE media release, 5 June 2012: http://minister.innovation.gov.au/chrisevans/MediaReleases/Pages/TropicalDataHubtotackleglobalresearchissues.aspx

JCU media release, 5 June 2012: http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/news/JCU_103536

Key Apps Deliverable #4 – Demonstrations of Value

Good news stories about the software and how it is adding value by helping researchers to do cutting edge research that wasn’t easy or even possible to do before, are a key deliverable in all the ANDS Apps projects, and a great topic to blog about.

These “Demonstrations of Value” are expected to:

• result in data being transformed or integrated across multiple sources to produce new forms of information that enable innovative, high-quality research outcomes;
• deliver value to at least one high profile research champion;
• be relevant to a range of government portfolios; and
• engage with National Research Capabilities.
  

The “value message” (i.e. WHAT value has the software added to the research process?) and an outline of the envisaged strategy for communicating of the value message to a wider audience (i.e. WHO? will present the message, through WHAT? media channels and WHEN?, will have been defined in each ANDS Applications Project Description prior to contract signing. These Deliverables will always require a high profile Researcher or Policy Maker to publicly state that the software product is allowing them to conduct research / develop policy that wasn’t possible before.

Blogging about the dissemination activities by the high-profile Research or Policy Champion themselves is perfect blog content, however any other stories about the project and interest in the product by other groups within Australia and Internationally are also excellent material for your blog. In particular, we also would love to hear about demonstrations of value and other “good news stories” that were not envisaged in the project contract - ANDS and DIISRTE are very interested in hearing that their investment is having a widespread impact.

Some blog post examples of this latter type from ANDS Apps projects are from the Edgar project where the software has been demonstrated to INBio, a Costa Rican NGO, and from the Human Chromosome 7 Atlasproject who have had widespread interest from the International Proteomics Community in their software product following presentation of the softwareprototype at the 6th AOHUPO Congress in Beijing.

TAGS for these types of post: EITHER andsContractedDoVs OR  andsOtherDoVs, andsValue, andsApps, fundedByAustralianNationalDataService, DIISRTE, {your project's acronym or tag}, {your ands project code, e.g. AP67}, {any other keyword tags you can think of that will help your project be discovered by like-minded projects}.