This week I was working on finishing up some training materials on the ENCODE data. We’ve talked about this before, and we’ve had some materials out already to support the ENCODE project, since we have a contract with the folks at UCSC to do some training on it. (The new materials should be out later [...]
So, remember that tidal wave of data we were going to get from the human genome project? Yeah. That was a puddle compared to what’s coming your way now. For this week’s tip of the week I will introduce the very ambitious big data project from the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC). In addition, you’ll [...]
Well, ok, you aren’t required to do the homework–it’s just available for you if you want to work on setting up GMOD tools around your projects (or at home, if you want…). We mentioned that the GMOD summer school was going on, and now that it’s all successfully wrapped up many of the materials are [...]
At first the title of this paper made laugh, as I am a major fan of Paul Scofield’s performance in A Man for All Seasons. And then I remembered what happened to Thomas More. Well, the analogy drops away for me there…. A Mouse for All Reasons by the International Mouse Knockout Consortium presented the [...]
This is from the HapMap team for the human data (not the green HapMap I referenced recently). Older data is going to be removed from the HapMap.org browser and from BioMart. It will still be available in the ftp archive–but I just thought a heads-up was in order for folks who might not be on [...]
This week I gave a talk about the OpenHelix business model and strategies at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR). It was a great meeting for me–since I wasn’t giving software training I got to attend the scientific sessions I learned about several new tools that I’ll talk more about after I’ve had a [...]
Ok, well not exactly (wouldn’t that be nice). What do Ensembl, Gramene, Reactome, Wormbase, HapMap and RGD databases all have in common? (other than “.org” ) They all have a search mechanism powered by the same software, BioMart. [link fixed; Mary] In this week’s tip we take a real quick look at these and other [...]
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