BeeSpace in the News
The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL., Oct. 24) features an article on BeeSpace research.
Background information about the BeeSpace project can be found in the following sources:
These sources are directly about the NSF BeeSpace grant:
Bruce Schatz (PI), Gene Robinson, ChengXiang Zhai, Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Bertram Bruce, Susan Fahrbach [2004] BeeSpace - An Interactive Environment for Analyzing Nature and Nurture in Societal Roles, NSF FIBR Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research, Biological Sciences Directorate-wide competition, Grant 0425852 awarded $4,987,688 for period Sep 1, 2004 to Aug 31, 2009.
These project description were submitted to NSF in February 2004.
- Project Summary (one-page) PDF
- Project Proposal (text portions only) PDF
These Press Releases were announced in September 2004:
These Sources give background information about the BeeSpace Project:
The Biology research will create a new paradigm for the origins of behavior, using gene expression as an objective mechanism to discover the relative influences of nature and nurture, heredity and environment. We will use new Genome Technology to develop the first complete analysis of the normal behavior of an animal at the level of gene expression.
Biology Paradigm
Gene E. Robinson [2004] Beyond Nature and Nurture, invited essay for Perspectives section about Genomics,
Science 304: 397-399 (16 April 2004). PDF
Biology Technology
Charles Whitfield, Anne-Marie Cziko, Gene Robinson [2003] Gene Expression Profiles in the Brain Predict Behavior
in Individual Honey Bees, Science 302: 296-299 (10 October 2003). PDF
The Informatics research will create a new paradigm for the functional analysis of adaptive behavior, using conceptual navigation of community knowledge to discover the relationships between scientific literature and genome databases. We will use new Information Technology to develop the first complete environment to interactively navigate all the knowledge about a major model organism at the level of functional concepts.
Informatics Paradigm
Bruce R. Schatz [2002] Building Analysis Environments: Beyond the Genome and the Web, invited essay for Trends
and Controversies section about Mining Information for Functional Genomics, IEEE Intelligent
Systems 17: 70-73 (May/June 2002). PDF
Informatics Technology
Bruce R. Schatz [2002] The Interspace: Concept Navigation across Distributed Communities, Information Infrastructure
article for annual issue on Technology Trends, IEEE Computer 35: 54-62 (January 2002).
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Project Members and other interested parties can find more information at the project website at www.beespace.uiuc.edu
