Julian Gough on SUPERFAMILY & Open Science | The Huffington Post
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Summary:
"Julian Gough, a bioinformaticist at Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, England believes in the tradition of open science – the free-gift-to-the-world kind of science that first brought us the World Wide Web developed at CERN. Gough’s gift to the world is SUPERFAMILY, a database all about proteins in genomes, which he created as part of his PhD a dozen or so years ago.
Plug certain information into SUPERFAMILY and it can analyze a vast assortment of genomes and assist you in building a Tree of Life using superfamilies — i.e., domains with an evolutionary relationship — and the conserved part of thousands and thousands of protein structures called protein domains. Everyone can access this robust repository online, and it looks like everyone is. Gough says the site currently gets one hit per second."