MAMMAG Web Project

Description

MAMMAG Web is a platform for distributing mitochondrial information and developing web-based bioinformatics tools for its analysis. Core components include MITOMAP, a curated repository of data, the MITOMASTER analysis framework, and MITOWIKI, which provides the public interface and facilitates participation from the community. Make use of the features implemented in MAMMAG Web or develop your own? . Any questions or suggestions you have are welcome. Please send your correspondence to Marty Brandon.

Brief History

In 1996 Dr. Wallace was head of the Center for Molecular Medicine at Emory University, and Marie Lott was the lab manager. In a collaborative effort, Andy Kogelnik, a graduate student at Georgia Tech working under Dr. Shamkant Navathe, developed MITOMAP as part of his dissertation work for his PhD. Marie has served as curator of the variation data since its beginning, and has generated many other pages of information that are of interest to the mitochondrial community.

Several work-study students made amendments to MITOMAP in 1998 and 1999.

Marty Brandon, also a graduate student at Georgia Tech and working with Dr.Navathe, joined the project in 1999. The MITOMAP programs were rewritten and the data was ported into Oracle, and later into PostgresSQL. In 2002, the center moved to UC, Irvine and was renamed MAMMAG. As part of his dissertation work for a PhD, Marty added MITOMASTER, and while experimenting with MITOWIKI began creating a unifying and extensible platform for all the informatics projects at MAMMAG. The goal is to provide a common set of tools and development environment for the mitochondrial research community.