By: Chris Douville
I would like to thank the GSA for providing me with a travel grant. Without the
additional funding, I would not have been able to attend and present my poster to
the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) in Boston, which is the primary
conference for computational biologists. My first paper-CRAVAT: cancer related
analysis of variants toolkit introduced a free and publically available webserver that
analyzes and annotates somatic and germline mutations identified in sequencing
studies. Since the initial publication, we have received additional funding from the
NIH to improve the current webserver. The webserver now offers significantly
more annotations, accepts more types of mutations, and processes files much
faster than the previous version. ISMB offered a great platform for me to share the
improvements with the computational biology community. I was able to talk to
existing users and attract many new researchers to CRAVAT. I am very grateful to
the GSA for giving me this opportunity. Thanks!
I would like to thank the GSA for providing me with a travel grant. Without the
additional funding, I would not have been able to attend and present my poster to
the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) in Boston, which is the primary
conference for computational biologists. My first paper-CRAVAT: cancer related
analysis of variants toolkit introduced a free and publically available webserver that
analyzes and annotates somatic and germline mutations identified in sequencing
studies. Since the initial publication, we have received additional funding from the
NIH to improve the current webserver. The webserver now offers significantly
more annotations, accepts more types of mutations, and processes files much
faster than the previous version. ISMB offered a great platform for me to share the
improvements with the computational biology community. I was able to talk to
existing users and attract many new researchers to CRAVAT. I am very grateful to
the GSA for giving me this opportunity. Thanks!