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… RT @moorejh: #bioinformatics MT @brainpicker TreeVersity – interactive #visualization tool lets you compare tree diagrams http://t.co/09PMu6Oo [...]
Comprehensive tutorials on the publicly available NCBI resources enable researchers to quickly and effectively use these invaluable resources. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 8, 2010 – OpenHelix today announced the availability of three updated tutorials on NCBI resources. The National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI, is home to many of the most commonly used publicly available databases and [...]
I have a vague memory of reading about COBALT a while back, but at the time it was an executable file to download and I think I put it away as “to do.” Well, a couple days ago I was over at the NCBI BLAST site for something (tip of the week?), and noticed there [...]
Today’s tip is on a TARGeT. TARGeT is, as the the paper’s title in the this year’s NAR’s issue states, “a web-based pipeline for retrieving and characterizing gene and transposable element families from genomic sequences.” There are several things you can do at TARGeT. Using BLAST, PHI BLAST, MUSCLE and TreeBest ,the main function of [...]
So the other day on a political board, actually, I heard about a treatment that may be helping to fight Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in bees. It had originally been posted by Treehugger. So the blogs have been abuzz with the news. It seems there is an Israeli company called Beeologics that has developed a [...]
A recent paper (couple weeks ago) in PLoS Biology from Hingamp et al. had me intrigued. Entitled Metagenome Annotation Using a Distributed Grid of Undergraduate Students, the lecturers put together a system to teach bioinformatics to undergraduates that uses new unannotated sequences from metagenome projects. As stated in the announcement, This method asks students to [...]
Mary wrote about this Bioinformaticist Career survey previously and now the results are out (that’s some analysis, here are the full results). Looking through the results and discussing it briefly with others, I would say that there is nothing particularly surprising from my experience in the bioinformatics field. The survey reflects what I see today. [...]
OpenHelix today announced the availability of new tutorial suites on two highly used sequence similarity search resources: BLAST and FASTA. BLAST, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NIH and FASTA, accessed through a web interface at European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), are both excellent and widely used tools for finding sequence similarities for [...]
One of the reasons we started this blog (and company) is because not only are the number of genomics databases, analysis tools and resources rising dramatically, they are in constant flux. New resources are born constantly (the graph on the right shows the rise in the number of resources listed in the annual NAR database [...]
For funding reasons, NCBI (home of PubMed, BLAST, dbSNP, OMIM and more) has cut their outreach staff, canceled all onsite training seminars and this has to mean decreased support for online help, documentation and tutorials. When we wrote our NIH grant, one of the models of success in the bioinformatics training area that we highlighted [...]
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