BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions. We are members of thecommunity and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those questions and answers here in this thread. You [...]
As you may know, we’ve been doing these video tips-of-the-week for FOUR years now. We have completed around 200 little tidbit introductions to various resources from last year, 2011 (yep, it’s 2012 now). At the end of the year we’ve established a sort of holiday tradition: we are doing a summary post to collect them all. If you have [...]
BioMart is widely-used data management open-source software, with an interface that enables end-users to generate complex and customized queries across many types and sources of biological data. It’s part of the GMOD tool kit, and many project teams that have big data have chosen the BioMart software to organize and make their data available to [...]
Last year I had the opportunity to give a workshop in Ifrane Morocco (UCSC Genome and Table browsers, Galaxy) at Al Akhawayn University. This year, Mary and I returned for a longer 3-day workshop at University Hassan II in Mohammadia. OpenHelix was a co-sponsor of the workshop (donating our time, materials and expertise). The workshop [...]
We’ve talked about the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) before a number of times, and we had a Tip of the Week on the project and database last year. It may be time for a new tip because their site and software has changed. One of the very cool aspects of the data access is [...]
Integrating large data sets for queries within–and across–various collections is one of the arenas that has lately been pretty active in bioinformatics. As more and more “big data” projects yield huge numbers of data points and data types, this is only becoming more necessary. I love to browse data, but there are times when a [...]
When we have workshops coming up, I spend some time tooling around in the big data to see if there have been changes since the last time I talked about it, update the slides if necessary, and sometimes forming a hypothesis and testing it. (PS: we’re at Baylor next, if anyone is looking for a [...]
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… Chromothripsis – new model for some cancers? From GenomeWeb Daily News. I’m interested in seeing follow [...]
As you may know, we’ve been doing tips-of-the-week for three years now. We have completed around 150 little tidbit introductions to various resources*. At the end of the year we’ve established a sort of holiday tradition: we are doing a summary post to collect them all. If you have missed any of them it’s a [...]
Would like to just announce that Mary and I will be giving an all-day hands-on workshop on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 in Washington DC (my home town), right before the ASHG conference (where we will also be). The title of the workshop is A World Tour of Genome Browsers and a Galaxy of Analysis Tools. [...]
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