[Cdd-commits] r703 - projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks

[CDD Subversion Commit]

Author: tille
Date: Fri Apr 11 12:15:52 2008
New Revision: 703

Modified:
   projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio
Log:
Added trapss


Modified: projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio
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--- projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio	(original)
+++ projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio	Fri Apr 11 12:15:52 2008
@@ -1216,3 +1216,41 @@
  Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB) Open Source Project Site
  http://gforge.nci.nih.gov/ which has to be evaluated and put into the
  right category of our tasks files
+
+Ignore: trapss
+Homepage: https://putt.eng.uiowa.edu/
+License: Creative Commons for Science license
+Pkg-Description: Transcript Annotation Prioritization and Screening System
+ TrAPSS stands for Transcript Annotation Prioritization and Screening
+ System. It is a system comprised of several tools written by
+ researchers at the Coordinated Lab for Computational Genomics in the
+ University of Iowa. The system aims to aid scientists who are
+ searching for the genetic mutation or mutations that are linked to
+ expression of a disease phentotype. The system offers support for
+ almost all areas of a mutation discovery project from the creation
+ and prioritization of a large candidate gene list, to the selection,
+ ordering, and managing of primer pairs, and even support for SSCP
+ assay results. TrAPSS is a currently deployed and often used tool for
+ several laboratories here at the University of Iowa in the College of
+ Medicine. The system is composed of several Java applications, many
+ web-based PHP tools, and a local MySQL database. Even the Java
+ applications are available through a web browser due to Sun's Java
+ Web Start. Director of the CLCG, Professor Terry A. Braun, heads the
+ project along with Dr. Todd Scheetz and Prof. Thomas
+ L. Casavant. Eight developers create and maintain the software:
+ Bartley Brown , Hakeem Almabrazi, Steven Davis and Jason Grundstad;
+ along with three graduate students, Brian O'Leary, John Ritchison and
+ Michael Smith; and one undergraduate student, Matthew Kemp.
+ Importance of TrAPSS
+ .
+ The true importance of TrAPSS is that it is based upon a novel way to
+ examine a large candidate list of genes. Rather than sequentially
+ examining full genes, the scheme often followed in current target
+ identification projects, TrAPSS provides tools that offer the user
+ the opportunity to screen certain small parts of several genes from
+ the candidate list at once. This "parallel" screening idea was
+ envisioned by researchers here at the University of Iowa including
+ Dr. Edwin Stone and Prof. Thomas L. Casavant. Research by graduate
+ students Steven Davis and Brian O'Leary has demonstrated the
+ advantage of the parallel screening method over the sequential
+ sequencing of large candidate lists.