Ensembl has been teasing about an update for a while now, version #51. It’s not out yet . But today on the Ensembl blog they do have a bit of a preview. It has a new design, some new stuff under the hood to make it run better, a new configuration panel and some of [...]
DOE JGI extended and updated the content of IMG and IMG/M recently as this linked press release shows (here is another), so today I’d like to just make a quick post to highlight that OpenHelix has a tutorial on IMG/M that is sponsored by JGI and thus free. Metagenomics is a huge new field and [...]
Well, I was reading this press item about a team of scientists from the University of Melbourne and Baylor College of Medicine who are sequencing the genome of Helicoverpa armigera aka cotton bollworm, corn earworm, tobacco budworm.. you get the picture, it’s a major agricultural pest. One thing caught my eye, they expect it to [...]
Hey, say you’ve got a bacterial genome you just sequenced in your spare time (hey, the way technology is going, it’s not far off) and you need to do a quick and dirty annotation to get you started. Well, there are several tools out there to do that, predict genes, annotate regions, etc. I’d like [...]
This week’s tip introduces a nice feature and tool of the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (VBRC). There are a lot of great tools at the VBRC to search and analyze hundreds of viral genomes. Most, if not all, of the tools can be used for searching and analyzing bacterial genomes also. The tool we are [...]
We’ve been playing with puzzles here the last while… amino acid spelling, sudoku, word search (and well, real science puzzles too), so I thought I’d try a bit of a crossword puzzle. Funny, I like creating them, just don’t play them very much. Hopefully that won’t show up here too much and it’s fun (for [...]
A paper published today in PLoS One reports on research that shows the feasibility of taking a gene or genomic region from an extinct species and inserting it into the genome of an extant species and resurrect the extinct species DNA function in the transgenic mice. The extinct species was the Tasmanian tiger or Thylacine [...]
It’s fun day here at Openhelix . We were noticing that we were getting searches for things like “word search for non infectious diseases” and “Protein word search,” apparently due to this earlier post about searching AA sequences for real words. So we thought we’d run with it . Using this site, I’ve created a [...]
Today’s tip of the week introduces you to Gramene, a great database of grass genomes including rice, corn, oats, millet, wheat and others. The database is full of serious data and genomic analysis tools for the grasses, but today we are going to show you something fun you could do with Gramene… plan your dinner. [...]
We’ve written before about the feel of ‘a genome a day’ around here. RPM at Evolgen points to a paper that suggests his prediction (from last year) that “de novo sequencing of whole eukaryotic genomes may be a thing of the past.” Perhaps he is correct, though we do have quite a large number of [...]
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