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From: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
To: Ann Loraine <aloraine@uncc.edu>
Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:42 AM
Subject: IGB Support Letter
Dear IGB developers,
I would like to express my gratitude for developing a useful tool.
My collaborator Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg from Giessen University, Germany, introduced me to IGB around 5 years ago, when I was a master student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and doing my Master thesis in the team of Prof. M.Gelfand at Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia.
I was a bioinformatician on the project we did together on the agriculturally important symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. This work resulted in several publications:
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27788207
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107716
During this collaboration, I provided a list of potential transcription start sites and the group of Dr. Hackenberg used IGB to choose the ones that would require validation. Also we used image exporting feature a lot to show our findings internally (with other collaborators) and externally (in publications and grant applications).
Because IGB allows to visualise proprietary genome features as long as they are coded in format like gff, I added our newly found genome components into self-constructed gff file. This file is actively used even now. Without IGB we could not do this work, as visualisation is highly important in this matters.
As a computational person myself, I appreciate the work required to merely support the software tool, as this is extremely challenging due to numerous OS systems and their constantly updated versions. With tools of such scope and usefulness (I hope download counts and citations give a hint that is useful to dozens and hopefully hundreds of users, which is a lot for academic world!) permanently employed software developer is a must. If you want to add new features - the team is required.
Importantly, this helps PhD students and PostDocs of academic team to get properly trained in software engineering and support, which is a highly useful skill also outside academia, where most of them will be employed eventually.
It is important to keep the tool free and user-friendly, which IGB satisfies very well.
Best regards,
Jelena Cuklina,
currently PhD student of ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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From: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
To: Ann Loraine <aloraine@uncc.edu> Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:42 AM Subject: IGB Support Letter |
From: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
To: Ann Loraine <aloraine@uncc.edu> Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:42 AM Subject: IGB Support Letter Dear IGB developers, I would like to express my gratitude for developing a useful tool. My collaborator Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg from Giessen University, Germany, introduced me to IGB around 5 years ago, when I was a master student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and doing my Master thesis in the team of Prof. M.Gelfand at Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. I was a bioinformatician on the project we did together on the agriculturally important symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. This work resulted in several publications: 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27788207 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107716 |
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From: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
To: Ann Loraine <aloraine@uncc.edu> Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:42 AM Subject: IGB Support Letter Dear IGB developers, I would like to express my gratitude for developing a useful tool. My collaborator Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg from Giessen University, Germany, introduced me to IGB around 5 years ago, when I was a master student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and doing my Master thesis in the team of Prof. M.Gelfand at Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. I was a bioinformatician on the project we did together on the agriculturally important symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. This work resulted in several publications: 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27788207 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107716 |
From: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
To: Ann Loraine <aloraine@uncc.edu> Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:42 AM Subject: IGB Support Letter Dear IGB developers, I would like to express my gratitude for developing a useful tool. My collaborator Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg from Giessen University, Germany, introduced me to IGB around 5 years ago, when I was a master student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and doing my Master thesis in the team of Prof. M.Gelfand at Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. I was a bioinformatician on the project we did together on the agriculturally important symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. This work resulted in several publications: 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27788207 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107716 During this collaboration, I provided a list of potential transcription start sites and the group of Dr. Hackenberg used IGB to choose the ones that would require validation. Also we used image exporting feature a lot to show our findings internally (with other collaborators) and externally (in publications and grant applications). Because IGB allows to visualise proprietary genome features as long as they are coded in format like gff, I added our newly found genome components into self-constructed gff file. This file is actively used even now. Without IGB we could not do this work, as visualisation is highly important in this matters. As a computational person myself, I appreciate the work required to merely support the software tool, as this is extremely challenging due to numerous OS systems and their constantly updated versions. With tools of such scope and usefulness (I hope download counts and citations give a hint that is useful to dozens and hopefully hundreds of users, which is a lot for academic world!) permanently employed software developer is a must. If you want to add new features - the team is required. Importantly, this helps PhD students and PostDocs of academic team to get properly trained in software engineering and support, which is a highly useful skill also outside academia, where most of them will be employed eventually. |
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From: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
To: Ann Loraine <aloraine@uncc.edu> Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:42 AM Subject: IGB Support Letter Dear IGB developers, I would like to express my gratitude for developing a useful tool. My collaborator Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg from Giessen University, Germany, introduced me to IGB around 5 years ago, when I was a master student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and doing my Master thesis in the team of Prof. M.Gelfand at Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. I was a bioinformatician on the project we did together on the agriculturally important symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. This work resulted in several publications: 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27788207 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107716 During this collaboration, I provided a list of potential transcription start sites and the group of Dr. Hackenberg used IGB to choose the ones that would require validation. Also we used image exporting feature a lot to show our findings internally (with other collaborators) and externally (in publications and grant applications). Because IGB allows to visualise proprietary genome features as long as they are coded in format like gff, I added our newly found genome components into self-constructed gff file. This file is actively used even now. Without IGB we could not do this work, as visualisation is highly important in this matters. As a computational person myself, I appreciate the work required to merely support the software tool, as this is extremely challenging due to numerous OS systems and their constantly updated versions. With tools of such scope and usefulness (I hope download counts and citations give a hint that is useful to dozens and hopefully hundreds of users, which is a lot for academic world!) permanently employed software developer is a must. If you want to add new features - the team is required. Importantly, this helps PhD students and PostDocs of academic team to get properly trained in software engineering and support, which is a highly useful skill also outside academia, where most of them will be employed eventually. |
From: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
To: Ann Loraine <aloraine@uncc.edu> Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:42 AM Subject: IGB Support Letter Dear IGB developers, I would like to express my gratitude for developing a useful tool. My collaborator Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg from Giessen University, Germany, introduced me to IGB around 5 years ago, when I was a master student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and doing my Master thesis in the team of Prof. M.Gelfand at Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. I was a bioinformatician on the project we did together on the agriculturally important symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. This work resulted in several publications: 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27788207 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107716 During this collaboration, I provided a list of potential transcription start sites and the group of Dr. Hackenberg used IGB to choose the ones that would require validation. Also we used image exporting feature a lot to show our findings internally (with other collaborators) and externally (in publications and grant applications). Because IGB allows to visualise proprietary genome features as long as they are coded in format like gff, I added our newly found genome components into self-constructed gff file. This file is actively used even now. Without IGB we could not do this work, as visualisation is highly important in this matters. As a computational person myself, I appreciate the work required to merely support the software tool, as this is extremely challenging due to numerous OS systems and their constantly updated versions. With tools of such scope and usefulness (I hope download counts and citations give a hint that is useful to dozens and hopefully hundreds of users, which is a lot for academic world!) permanently employed software developer is a must. If you want to add new features - the team is required. Importantly, this helps PhD students and PostDocs of academic team to get properly trained in software engineering and support, which is a highly useful skill also outside academia, where most of them will be employed eventually. It is important to keep the tool free and user-friendly, which IGB satisfies very well. Best regards, Jelena Cuklina, currently PhD student of ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
From: Mason Meyer <mmeyer20@uncc.edu>
To: Cuklina Jelena <jelena.chuklina@imsb.biol.ethz.ch>
Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: IGB Support Letter
Hello Cuklina,
My name is Mason Meyer, Support Specialist for the IGB Project. I know that one of our team members may have already responded to you, but I wanted to respond to you myself to express our gratitude for your outstanding support letter. Our entire team appreciates the time you took to put together these kind words about our project. We pride ourselves in making user-friendly software that is valuable to the scientific community, and it feels good when someone like yourself takes the time to express the importance of our project to let others know that IGB is unique, and necessary to your work.
Our team is constantly working to improve IGB for its users, and one way we do this is by gathering valuable feedback from them. If you or your team ever has any feature requests or other suggestions for improvement, we would love to hear about them. We aim to perform a release in the near future to add a few improvements to the software and address some minor bugs, so be sure to check out the new version once it is released. If you have any additional feedback for us, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you once again, Cuklina!
Sincerely,
Mason Meyer
IGB Support Specialist