After again reading Daniel MacArthur’s good rundown about the state of databases of human disease-causing variation from last year (One database to hold them all), I thought it might be nice to do a tip comparing several of them. I couldn’t get it under our self-imposed 5 minute limit for our tips (and technical limit [...]
In today’s tip I am going to feature a resource that I found recently. I’ve been updating our dbSNP tutorial, which Mary & Trey will be presenting at workshops in Morocco, and also our free PDB tutorial, which is sponsored by the RCSB PDB team. I have therefore been thinking about protein structures and small [...]
Comprehensive tutorials on the publicly available dbGaP, GAD, and DGV databases enable researchers to quickly and effectively use these invaluable resources. Seattle, WA: July 16, 2009 — OpenHelix today announced the availability of new tutorial suites on dbGaP, Genetic Assocation Database (GAD) and Database of Genomic Variants (DGV). The dbGaP resource is a database of [...]
I didn’t expect to be doing another blog post today, but I found this story so compelling that I put off some other work to track this down. New Gene Nailed for ALS. (subscription required) My Science newsletter today had a link to a story about a new gene found that may be mutated in [...]
Ok, that’s a really broad title for an important area. And it is a problem that we are starting to see addressed more and more with GWAS (genome wide association studies). If you came here hoping that I had solved this, I’m sorry to disappoint you. We are asked all the time for places to [...]
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