Tag: genome browsers

Tip of the Week: one iPad app to rule them all

9 May, 2012 (09:22) | Tip of the Week | By: Trey

There is none. Ok, so that is the simple answer. The complicated answer is this: my ideal genome browser iPad app would have the flexibility to go from a mass market browser to look at an individual’s genomic variants in a genomic context with information about the research, genes, etc presented in such a manner [...]

Saving your genome views: Ensembl (and UCSC Genome Browser, others)

14 December, 2011 (12:06) | Genomics Resource News | By: Trey

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 [...]

Friday SNPets

20 August, 2010 (09:00) | SNPpets | By: Jennifer

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… From BioMed Central article alert: BioModels Database: An enhanced, curated and annotated resource for published quantitative [...]

Can you spare a genome browser?

31 July, 2009 (16:11) | Genomics Research | By: Trey

Recently I’ve been coming across more and more requests and need for genome annotation and visualization software. Genomes are being completed left and right and researchers need ways to browse and annotate these genomes. There are a lot of tools out there. This post is a quick attempt to start listing those. It is not [...]

Got a genome? Need a browser?

20 April, 2009 (15:05) | General Science, Genomics Research, Genomics Resource News, New Resource | By: Mary

From the GBrowse mailing list the other day came notice of a new way to use GBrowse–without programming! A team from Indiana University has lowered the barrier of entry for anyone with a genome they want to display.  They have created an interface and web server for GBrowse that lets you simply upload your data [...]

Dogs again

16 January, 2008 (23:16) | General Science, Genomics News | By: Trey

Remember this entry about finding out about your mutt’s mom? Well, I found this video testing two mutts’ DNA to see what their ancestry is on Greg Laden’s blog this evening. I’m not sure about those results though. (spoiler in the continuation… if you want to be surprised, watch the video and then come back [...]