User:AngieHinrichs

Hi! I'm one of the Genome Browser developers, and have been on the staff since May 2002 so I've seen quite a lot of growth in our site's offerings and in the group. My main responsibilities fall into three categories:

• Adding databases and tracks to the Genome Browser

• Fixing bugs and adding new features to the Genome Browser, Table Browser and other site tools

• Assisting the genome list moms in answering users' questions

Some things I'm working on at the moment:

• Adding recognition of genomewiki identities to our CGIs, so that identified users can save their settings into named sessions, share those sessions with other users, etc.

• xenTro2 browser database

Some things I expect to work on in the near future:

• Table browser feature requests, starting with paste/upload of genomic regions

• galGal3 (when it's released)

• IGTC track (waiting for data)

• automation of stable track build processes

Some background tasks that are always ongoing:

• Nightly cron system checks: source build, coordinate checks on new tables, update of tableDescriptions tables, hgFindSpec termRegex checks, /gbdb and /usr/local/apache/htdocs link integrity

• Code cleanup: currently finding -Wall warnings and cleaning up at the rate of about one program per day

• Consulting for QA, researchers and other developers

Some past projects:

• hgFindSpec: specification of position searches in trackDb.ra files

• hgText rewrite (before Jim rewrote it again into hgTables) to support intersection and new table types

• hgTables: bedGraph treated as wiggle; subtrack merge

• automation of our blastz/chain/net pairwise alignment process

• addition of clade categorization to central database, hgGateway & hgTables

• many browser databases, including rn4, galGal*, canFam*, all drosophilae; parts of many other databases

• 2006 NAR Database Issue update paper about the Genome Browser database

• helped with the ENCODE track-loading bonanza of 2005, attended analysis meeting and assisted researchers with browser usage

• Genome Browser & Table Browser tutorial at CSHL Chicken Genomics meeting, 2005