A couple of months back when the Heliconius (Postman) Butterfly genome paper was released, we got to see another example of how the new sequencing technologies are giving us access to more and more genome data–in species that are not the main model organisms. Monarch butterfly genome data had been released prior to that as [...]
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 [...]
As many of you know, OpenHelix specializes in helping people access and utilize the gold mine of public bioscience data in order to further research. One of the ways that we do this is by creating materials to train people – researchers, clinicians, librarians, and anyone interested in science - on where to find data they are interested [...]
I was catching up on some mailing list reading last week when I saw an unusual item come across the UCSC discussion mailing list. Someone who is in the process of obtaining genome and transcriptome sequence for a new project asked the UCSC group for guidance on what to do with it. It’s actually a [...]
In the latest update of Ensembl, the developers added the ability to save configurations. This allows you to set your track views and analysis to a specific configuration and load that configuration at a later time. The blog post linked previously (or here) explains the steps to creating your own configurations you can save and [...]
The advance access release of most of the NAR database issue articles is out. As usual, this this database issue includes a wealth of new and updated data repositories and analysis tools. We’ll be writing up additional more extensive blog posts on it and doing some tips of the week over the next couple months, [...]
Trey introduced me to this “decent collection of video tutorials ” from Ensembl, but he and Mary are currently in Morocco teaching a 3-day bioinformatics workshop & then attending the conference (yes, I am envious!). I am therefore creating this week’s tip based on the tutorials that Trey pointed me to. In today’s tip I am [...]
Hi folks–we’re on the road doing workshops this week, back to near our old stomping grounds of upstate New York, in fact! So I won’t be able to write blog posts. Luckily Ewan Birney of Ensembl published one over the weekend that you should check out. In it he describes some of the newer features [...]
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… Well, I did this first in a blog post with my allergy gene–but they did a [...]
Here at OpenHelix we think a lot about the differences between nominally similar software that will accomplish some given task. For example, in our workshops we are often asked about the differences between genome browsers. Although UCSC sponsors our workshops and training materials on their browser, we know they aren’t the only genome browser out [...]
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