Thanks to all who participated in the third annual Gaggle Workshop . It was the most successful workshop so far. We had two days of presentations and discussion and welcomed several new collaborators to the project.

Please visit the workshop wiki page where you will be able to see presentations from the workshop and other information.

Two recently published Baliga lab papers were featured in The Scientist.

A single transcription factor regulates evolutionarily diverse but functionally linked metabolic pathways in response to nutrient availability
Amy K Schmid, David J Reiss, Min Pan, Tie Koide & Nitin S Baliga
16 June 2009

Prevalence of transcription promoters within archaeal operons and coding sequences
Tie Koide, David J Reiss, J Christopher Bare, Wyming Lee Pang, Marc T Facciotti, Amy K Schmid, Min Pan, Bruz Marzolf, Phu T Van, Fang-Yin Lo, Abhishek Pratap, Eric W Deutsch, Amelia Peterson, Dan Martin & Nitin S Baliga
16 June 2009

Prevalence of transcription promoters within archaeal operons and coding sequences (Koide et al Molecular Systems Biology 5:285) provides an integrative analysis of transcriptome dynamics and protein–DNA interaction in H. salinarum using whole-genome tiling arrays and ChIP-chip.

Paper features Gaggle and our Genome Browser. See additional information.

The Ontological Discovery Environment allows users to integrate phenotype centered gene sets across species, tissue and experimental platform. Sets can be stored, shared and compared privately, among user defined groups of investigators, and across all users.

The ODE is compatible with Gaggle, through the Firegoose extension to the Firefox web browser.

The ODE comes from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and is a project of the NIAAA Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (U01AA13499, U24AA13513).

Ed Tellman, developer of the Science Service Bus (SSB), was featured on Mulecast, a podcast for the Mule community. SSB is gaggle compatible application of the Mule enterprise service bus / message broker, which brings enterprise middleware to the Gaggle.