First Academic Paper Submission
Life has been very busy these days. One thing keeping me busy has been a paper I was writing for my Bioinformatics class, which I also just submitted to the annual conference for the American Medical Informatics Association. This conference will be in Chicago in November. If my paper is accepted, I’ll have 15 minutes to present it.
I was excited, because this is my first academic paper, until after I submitted it and started to think of all the ways I could have done it better or that it might be criticized in the review process. But I don’t have anything to lose. It was an interesting project.
In case you are interested, here is a brief overview of the paper:
Hundreds of human genes are known to cause heritable forms of cancer. Researchers have
produced detailed annotations to characterize these and other genes and made them available for public use. These annotations can be browsed online at http://www.geneontology.org. My aim was to determine whether you could use the list of known cancer genes and find patterns in their annotations. Having found those patterns, maybe you could predict other genes that cause cancer, or at least narrow down your search. I used an approach called machine learning (or data mining) to search through the data and see how successful it would be at identifying those patterns. It was moderately successful, but the approach seems to have some value and could be a starting point for further exploration.
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