In looking through the 2012 Web Server Issue of NAR, Nucleic Acids Research journal, I couldn’t help notice resource names that revealed a bit about the developers’ sense of humor, such as “TaxMan” and “XXmotif“. There were others on the list (“MAGNET“, “GENIES” and “VIGOR“, for example) whose names made me cringe imagining someone trying [...]
This week is a bit different than the usual “What’s the Answer?” post where we highlight a question from a forum that our readers might be interested in. However–in this post, one of the answers includes BioStar–so it sort of comes back around! Stephen Turner (aka @genetics_blog) wrote up a blog post recently in response [...]
Trey introduced me to this “decent collection of video tutorials ” from Ensembl, but he and Mary are currently in Morocco teaching a 3-day bioinformatics workshop & then attending the conference (yes, I am envious!). I am therefore creating this week’s tip based on the tutorials that Trey pointed me to. In today’s tip I am [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Another SPORE winner: “PlantingScience – fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship.” [Jennifer] Interesting [...]
Bioinformatics analysis is a powerful technique applicable to a wide variety of fields, and the subject of many a blog post here at OpenHelix. I’ve had two particular bioinformatics articles on my desk for a couple of months now, waiting for me to be able to articulate my thoughts on them. They both offer great [...]
Online tutorial gives researchers and scientists a place to learn about the many biology resources available to them. These links assist scientists by guiding them to relevant technical tutorials on resources which may be unfamiliar to them. Thanks to this partnership with OpenHelix, BioMed Central journals are able to make their scientific content more useful [...]
Most weeks our tip is a five-minute movie that quickly introduces you to a new resource, or a cool new function at an established resource. Occasionally we feature one of our full resource tutorial that is being made freely available through resource sponsorship of our training suite. In this week’s tip we provide access to [...]
Just over a week ago, Neil Saunders wrote a post I agreed with: Real bioinformaticians write code. The post was in response to a tweet conversation that started: Many #biostar questions begin “I am looking for a resource..”. The answer is often that you need to code a solution using the data you have. He’s right, [...]
I’ve been using Biostar for the last month and am finding it to be a great resource. Biostar is a Q&A space for genomics and bioinformatics questions. Currently, it is using ‘StackExchange‘, which is a community-driven Q&A forum. Today’s world in biology research was ripe for Biostar (we should know . The way Biostar works is [...]
Back in April I happened to mention that we (OpenHelix) were writing a paper on informal sources of bioinformatics education (in a Friday SNPets item) and we were asked to announce when the paper came out. Well, we got word late last week that the article has been published. The article appears in a special [...]
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