GEP News

Building an Inclusive and Accessible Work Environment

November 18, 2021

New microPublication Alert

Drosophila yakuba – Tsc1

November 16, 2021

Gaining research experience is limited at many institutions due to budget and resource constraints. What is magical about GEP is that it’s entirely web-based and students only need access to the internet, whereas normally they may need access to laboratories and biological specimens. This is a great equalizer, and helps students become better scientists and better citizens because they can apply those critical thinking skills to any scenario. Dr. Laura Reed The University of Alabama

GEP Program Director Wins Outstanding Professor Award

November 15, 2021

Genomics Education Partnership (thegep.org) Summer Education Research Workshop The Assessment Committee is considering new education research questions and is planning a 5-day virtual summer workshop for GEP faculty interested in 1) professional development in education research and 2) collaborating on designing and conducting education research projects during the 2021/2022 academic year. The workshop will be facilitated by Professional-development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER). Who: All interested GEP faculty members are welcome to attend What: Based on PEER curriculum Where: Virtual When: June 28 - July 2, 2021; 2 hrs/day How: Synchronous Add yourself to the Trello card (thegep.org/GEP-PEER) if you are interested in participating (free-as everything in GEP!) or want more information!

GEP PEER Education Research Workshop

October 18, 2021

Pie chart of the Annotation Errors for the Pathways Project Reconciliation Statistics during Summer 2021 Synteny 61.6% Splice site boundaries 4.8% Extra/missing exon(s) 2.1% Mislabeled/missing 6.8% Gene model missing 1.4% Off By 1 2.7% Submission error 19.9%

2021 Pathways GEP Summer Research Fellows

October 11, 2021

New GEP Tools YouTube Video: Dot Plots and Protein Alignments

September 28, 2021

New GEP Tools YouTube Video: Using the RNA-Seq Tracks

September 16, 2021

F Element Project Reconciliation Statistics Fall 2020-Spring 2021 Gene model submission statistics: reconciled 848 gene models; approximately 75% of the submitted gene models were in congruence with the final gene models. Breakdown of annotation errors (n=232; note: some models have multiple annotation errors): The most common annotation error in the submitted gene models is the selection of incorrect splice site boundaries (24%) followed by start/stop codon error (18%), extra/missing exon (12%), missing pseudogene or retrogene (12%), gene model missing (9%), not the orthologous model (8%), mislabeled/missing isoform (6%), novel isoform (6%), and submission error (5%).

2021 F Element GEP Summer Research Fellows

September 2, 2021

Supporting Student Well-Being Created Positive Learning Environment

August 23, 2021