Paul Shaw
Paul Shaw is an informatician within the Information and Computational Sciences Group at The James Hutton Institute and has worked with us since 2002.
His primary interests are in the development of biological databases mainly in the genetic resources community and in the development of visualization tools to aid in the understanding of complex biological data.
For some more background on Paul visit https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/paul-shaw
Germinate 3 Released
We have now released Germinate 3 (3.1.0 Barn Owl) to the public. Feel free to try our demo site at https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/germinate-demo/ or have a look at more information on Germinate.
Using Frequency Tag Clouds in Error Identification
Word clouds sometimes get a hard time (and sometimes justifiably so) but they have functionality that makes them an effective way to look for errors in large textual-based datasets. In this example we used the online word cloud based service Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ after running a Perl program over as much pedigree data as we could gather on […]