I know this is a topic I keep hammering on. But I’m not sure that it’s really grokked by a lot of people who are not as deep into the bioinformatics aspects of biology today. Or those who support biologists, such as publishers and librarians, who may not be as immersed in the daily software [...]
The advance access release of most of the NAR database issue articles is out. As usual, this this database issue includes a wealth of new and updated data repositories and analysis tools. We’ll be writing up additional more extensive blog posts on it and doing some tips of the week over the next couple months, [...]
So I was watching my twitter feed today and saw this tidbit come along: @FN_Press: Elsevier Introduces Genome Viewer http://bit.ly/nS92lE ….The Genome Viewer utilizes a genome browser developed by NCBI (the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health). Elsevier collaborated with the NCBI as it was developing the browser, and is [...]
I was playing around with Google Scholar’s new citation feature that allowed me to collect my papers in one place easily (worked pretty well, btw, save a few glitches, see below) when I noticed it missed a paper of mine from 2000: “Gene context conservation of a higher order than operons.” The abstract: Operons, co-transcribed [...]
More and more we are seeing questions about ways to access Epigenomics data in the workshops we do. This often comes up in the workshop we do that focuses on the ENCODE data, because ENCODE is providing several epigenomics data sets that researchers are interested in. [The workshop we do is based on the materials [...]
The latest genome to be completed is the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber). Now, could there be a cooler (if ugly) mammal on the planet? It’s one of only two truly eusocial mammals in the world, it lives up to 28 long years (my daughter’s rat, no relation, lived only 3 years) and is surprisingly [...]
Brought to you by OpenHelix and BioMed Central . We really like the feature and idea (of course) and thought we’d pass it on. BioMed Central (BMC) is an open access publisher. BMC along with OpenHelix launched a new feature recently to give readers of BMC journals timely access to relevant genomic resource tutorials. When [...]
Epigenetics and epigenomics are becoming more exciting areas of investigation, and we are seeing more requests for database resources to support them, and for the sources of data from these types of experiments. If you aren’t aware of these investigations at this point, check out their entries in the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms: Epigenetics: [...]
A recent paper on a GUI interface introduces SAMMate. As the paper states: With just a few mouse clicks, SAMMate will provide biomedical researchers easy access to important alignment information stored in SAM/BAM files. You might want to check it out if you have Next Generation Sequencing data in the form of BAM/SAM files. A [...]
Ok, it’s hot now–but it’s something we refer back to all year long, actually. For people who don’t know about the NAR Database Issue, since the mid-90s Nucleic Acids Research has been collecting bioinformatics databases and tools that are of use to a huge range of researchers. We’ve watched it grow over the years and [...]
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