Deborah A. Siegele

The paper describes a crowdsourcing initiative, CACAO, where undergraduates contribute gene function annotations to the Gene Ontology, enhancing coverage and enabling community-driven curation.

The paper reanalyzes high-throughput chemical genomics data for E. coli K-12 to assess phenotypic profile similarity metrics and their ability to infer gene function.

microbialPhenotypes provides an R package for analyzing high-throughput microbial phenotype data with tools for annotation and data cleaning.