BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions. We are members of the community 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 [...]
I was playing around with Google Scholar’s new citation feature that allowed me to collect my papers in one place easily (worked pretty well, btw, save a few glitches, see below) when I noticed it missed a paper of mine from 2000: “Gene context conservation of a higher order than operons.” The abstract: Operons, co-transcribed [...]
BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics question s. We are members of the community 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 [...]
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, [...]
Gene phylogenies (as opposed to species phylogenies) can be very useful in determined gene function, history, orthology and paralogy predictions. PhylomeDB (link added!) is a database of gene phylogenies (or as they call them, Phylomes.. no end to the ‘omes is there? . Currently there are over a dozen such phylomes from species like humans and [...]
Mary brought up a paper just recently about what we are missing when data mining papers: Figures and figure legends. Enter the NCBI Image database. This very new database includes over 3 million images that are found in the full-text resources (i.e. PubMed Central) at NCBI. So, I did a search for “drosophila phylogeny” and [...]
I’ve mentioned others’ widgets before. They can be very handy tools on websites and blogs to add content and useful interactive searches, etc. Well, we now have our own. As many of our readers know, we have a genomics and bioinformatics search engine that helps the researcher find the database or analysis tool that best [...]
Today’s Tip of the Week is a short introduction to WAVe, or the Web Analysis of the Variome. The tool was recently introduced to us, and I’ve found it a welcome introduction to the tools available to the researcher to analyze human variation. This is apropos considering the recent paper we’ve been discussing on the clinical [...]
This next post in our continuing semi-regular Guest Post series is from Xiaowu Gai, the Bioinformatics Core Director at CHOP . If you are a provider of a free, publicly available genomics tool, database or resource and would like to convey something to users on our guest post feature, please feel free to contact us [...]
Greetings! OpenHelix Blog is instituting a new semi-weekly feature. Every Wednesday we have our “Tip of the Week,” on Thursdays we have our “What’s Your Problem,” and now on an occasional Tuesdays we are going to have our “Provider Guest Post.” These will be posts from providers of genomics tools and database and will be [...]
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