Lately we’re getting a lot of questions about ways to analyze the promoters and other regulatory aspects of genes. And for a while we were mostly pointing to the prediction data that was available in the UCSC Genome Browser’s TFBS Conserved track. TFBS Conserved is a track of computationally predicted transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) [...]
In today’s tip I want to make you aware of a tool that I think will help researchers to present their own data and publications in an accurate and universally searchable way. I learned of the resource (UCSDBioLit) through an article in one of my recent BioMed Central article alert emails. This resource allows authors [...]
Are you curious about what biocurators do? It may not surprise you that we at OpenHelix are pretty heavy-duty users of curated information from databases. It might surprise you to know that some of us have been involved in actually curating them as well. In both public and commercial situations, we’ve been on the curation [...]
In the continuing effort to get scientists and researchers to annotate and curate data and to capture the huge amount of knowledge available, UCSC Genome Browser has added a wiki annotation track to the browser. It’s not the first effort of course, GeneWiki is an effort, with mixed results so far, to annotate gene function [...]
In the push to ‘communitize’ annotation and curation, one journal, RNA Biology, is requiring submitters to add or update their RNA sequences on wikipedia. This article suggests that it’s working so far (update, link to the article added), The first examples of this program in action are already online. The journal is hosting an open [...]
Ever wanted to adopt a pet? Perhaps you’ve thought of donating to a zoo by “adopting” a zoo animal, well, you can do even more. The Encyclopedia of Life (which I’ve written about before) needs someone to adopt a species as an ‘authenticator/curator’. The EOL has a lot of potential, but it’s going to require [...]
I was looking over the Eurekalert announcements and came across one that I have been percolating about now for some time. It is an effort I fully support and encourage. But I worry about a few aspects of it. The alert is entitled: Controlling a sea of information. The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) has partnered [...]
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