NCBI was created in 1988 and has maintained the GenBank database for years. They also provide many computational resources and data retrieval systems for many types of biological data. As such they know all too well how quickly the data that biologists collect has changed and expanded. As uses for various data types have been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The latest genome to be completed is the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber). Now, could there be a cooler (if ugly) mammal on the planet? It’s one of only two truly eusocial mammals in the world, it lives up to 28 long years (my daughter’s rat, no relation, lived only 3 years) and is surprisingly [...]
I did this tip over two years ago and am revisiting it today with a bit more information, on SciVee (so it’s shareable) and up-to-date. I’ve been updating our Galaxy tutorial and that tip has been one of the most tweeted, shared and visited tips we’ve done (not the most, just one of), so thought [...]
For those of you who are not American Thanksgiving observers, turkey is the main course of choice for most Americans for that harvest feast. Two years ago Mary reported the turkey genome was on it’s way. Well, it’s apropos that the turkey genome is nearly complete (PLoS paper out in September) and ready for this year’s [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link dump: 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… ROFL: Marriage vs PhD illustrated comparison. Hat Tip James. [Mary] DGV: Database of Genomic Variants newsletter [...]
Today’s tip of the week introduces a new (to us) tool for genomic comparisons. We came across this tool reading a blog post at James and the Giant Corn (great blog) about a figure from his research proposal. See, there are reasons to read blogs . The tool he uses to create this figure and [...]
I had a Basset Hound growing up. His name was Useless, Useless S. Grunt. Well, actually it was formally Ulysses S. Grant because the US Kennel Club wouldn’t accept Useless S. Grunt as a name as they felt it was too demeaning. Not sure if they felt it was demeaning to the dog or to the [...]
Recently, we are learning a lot about the cold virus. The genomes of many have now been sequenced (that is a subscription-required Science report, you can read more about the report here). You can find more genomic information at the picornaviridae.com at the NCBI’s Entrez Genomes and some structural information at MMDB. (just a side [...]
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