TASmania: a new resource for microbiologists
Channel: SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Date: 2019-12-11

What you will discover: TASmania, a new discovery pipeline and database for bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin Systems (https://shiny.bioinformatics.unibe.ch/apps/tasmania/) 

You are: a microbiologist (wet-lab scientist, clinician) or a bioinformatician embedded in a microbiology lab

Speaker: Hatice Akarsu Egger, Postdoctoral researcher in Laurent Falquet’s Bioinformatics Unraveling Group at the University of Fribourg and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 

Click to access specific sections of the talk: 
1. What are Toxin-Antitoxin Systems 00:50
2. TASmania: For whom, what for 04:00
3. Model and pipeline behind TASmania 05:07
4. A discovery tool for uncharacterized TAS, new TAS family and networks 09:50
5. Summary 12:22

Reference paper
Akarsu H et al. TASmania: A bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin Systems database. PLoS Comput Biol. 2019 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31022176

Other resources mentioned in this talk: 
• The UniProt, universal protein knowledgebase https://www.uniprot.org/ 
• Ensembl Bacteria, genome-centric portal for bacterial species of scientific interest https://bacteria.ensembl.org/index.html 
• The UniFr Bioinformatics Platform https://www3.unifr.ch/bio/en/services/bugfri.html

Any question about this talk? Contact Hatice: hatice.akarsu[at]gmail.com (or via GitHub https://github.com/frihaka) or Laurent laurent.falquet[at]unifr.ch

More about the speaker: 
Hatice Akarsu Egger received a PhD in Structural Biology from the University of Grenoble in 2005 (EMBL, Group of Prof. R. Ruigrok), followed by a Postdoctoral fellowship in virology with Prof. Kawaoka  (Tokyo, Japan) and in gene expression with Prof. T. Kouzarides (Cambridge, UK). Since 2015 she is at the bioinformatics platform of Dr L. Falquet at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

Read the news on our website: https://www.sib.swiss/about-sib/news/10593-tasmania-a-new-resource-for-microbiologists

Register to the SIB "in silico talks" mailing list to receive a notification when the next talk is online - https://www.sib.swiss/training/in-silico-talks#about-the-in-silico-talks

This video is available under the creative commons license CC-BY-4.0 
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/