For this week’s video tip of the week we’ll explore the Yak Genome Database. Honestly I wouldn’t have predicted a week where I talk about the Sasquatch genome, the abominable snowman (really, it was a Nature paper), and yaks. But genomics is pretty wild these days. Some folks are getting jaded about the new genome [...]
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 [...]
Occasionally we highly video tips and tutorials from other sites. Today I’d like to point to you MaizeGDB. Last year the folks at MaizeGDB highlighted their video tutorials in Database, As they state in their abstract: Video tutorials are an effective way for researchers to quickly learn how to use online tools offered by biological [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Subtitled: the data is not in the papers anymore. Again. And again. As the data deluge continues, and those next-gen sequencing setups and labs continue to crank out more and more data, the details cannot be captured in the papers anymore. They just can’t. Authors can summarize the key findings, and show compelling examples and [...]
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 [...]
A quick FYI–just came across my inbox: Hello, I am pleased to formally announce pre-registration for the upcoming GMOD community meeting which will take place October 12-13 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, hosted by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. The meeting web page is here: http://gmod.org/wiki/October_2011_GMOD_Meeting and while it is still under construction, the registration [...]
From the ethers comes word of the GMOD spring trainings. I hear how valuable these are for folks who are working with the Generic Model Organism tools like GBrowse, Apollo, Chado, and more from the installation/configuration perspective. (Our trainings focus on the end users.) And this time they are also listing Galaxy as one of [...]
You know, when the catfish genome is complete, that will be a cool addition to our “Yet another Genome” posts (which I should make a regular series or some update somewhere). Till the genome is complete, you can view and analyze catfish genomic data at cBARBEL, reported in this weeks NAR advance access: Catfish Breeder And Researcher Bioinformatics Entry Location. Among other [...]
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