It may not be traditionally what you think of as flu season, but lately there’s been a great deal of talk about some viruses that are concerning public health officials and infectious disease specialists. You might have heard of the H7N9 situation in China, and the NCoV virus in France that made headlines. But researchers [...]
BioBase is a provider of expert-curated biological databases. Two well known BioBase databases are TransFac and HGMD. Both have publicly available data (see previous links), but if you go to the BioBase site, you’ll find there are subscription based data access also for more feature-rich access. HGMD is the Human Gene Mutation database and “ represents [...]
There are a lot of cancer database resources out there. Most of the ones we’ve focused on have been the data repository types. TCGA, ICGC, CaBIG, COSMIC, Cancer Genome Workbench, UCSC Cancer Genomic Browser, and of course big repositories like GEO. Researchers will need these sources of data to locate key alterations in cancer cells [...]
I’ve talked a lot about how much I am interested in seeing new visualization strategies for working with the volumes of data was have today–which are certainly not going to stop flowing in. But a more basic level of this is even just locating and navigating to find the data sets you might want to [...]
This week’s video Tip of the Week offers you a quick tour of GISAID’s resources and their EpiFlu™ database. This is the database you might be hearing about in the news—the one to which researchers submit the new H7N9 influenza sequence data that they are collecting. Originally this initiative was seeded as the “Global Initiative [...]
This week’s tip of the week is a bit afield from what we usually cover. But sometimes I see that people are looking for cheminformatics materials from our site, and this resource that I learned about recently seems like a terrific effort to wrangle some of the basics and foundations of cheminformatics (or, as David [...]
We’ve laughed in the past about a “genome of the day” because there are so many projects each week that we want to explore, and it’s hard to keep up. But recently I wanted to have a look at the peach genome project, because–well, peaches! And the summary papers are nice. But generally I want [...]
For this week’s video tip of the week, I’m going to highlight the services of figshare. Figshare is a terrific resource for storing data, posters, papers, slides, code, movies, and more. Nearly any sort of digital item that you may be creating as part of your research or research communications projects can be uploaded to [...]
I have a soft spot for Flybase. My Ph.D. work used Drosophila and I’ve used Drosophila species to teach after that. Something about Dipteran genetics fascinates me. FlyBase is also one of the older genetics and genomics databases and we’ve got a tutorial on it. Today’s tip is their 12 minute video of FlyBase for [...]
Today’s tip is from NCBI. Specifically, NCBI’s Genome Workbench. The workbench is …an integrated application for viewing and analyzing sequence data. With Genome Workbench, you can view data in publically available sequence databases at NCBI, and mix this data with your own private data. It’s a useful program and they have a great set [...]
Recent Comments