Tag: genomics resources

Announcement of Updated Tutorial Materials: UniProt, Overview of Genome Browsers, and World Tour of Resources

19 December, 2011 (11:53) | OpenHelix News | By: Jennifer

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 [...]

Video Tip of the Week: Big Changes to NCBI’s Genome Resources

14 December, 2011 (09:05) | General Science, Tip of the Week | By: Jennifer

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 [...]

OH Newsletter

16 August, 2010 (17:28) | General Science | By: Trey

OpenHelix has had a newsletter for the last couple years. We send it to subscribers and others interested. It’s a bit of an open secret . Well, I (Trey) took over putting it together this year and am in the midst of doing our latest one, I thought I’d mention it on the blog. The [...]

Washington University Subscribes to OpenHelix Training Portal

27 April, 2010 (16:31) | OpenHelix News | By: OHNews

Researchers, faculty, students and staff at Washington University can now efficiently and effectively learn to use bioinformatics and genomics resources with the extensive tutorial suite catalog from OpenHelix. Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) April 26, 2010 — Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine has purchased a subscription to OpenHelix (www.openhelix.com) giving faculty, students [...]

Coming up, Guest Posts

12 February, 2010 (11:35) | Guest Posts | By: Trey

Greetings! OpenHelix Blog is instituting a new semi-weekly feature. Every Wednesday we have our “Tip of the Week,” on Thursdays we have our “What’s Your Problem,” and now on an occasional Tuesdays we are going to have our “Provider Guest Post.” These will be posts from providers of genomics tools and database and will be [...]

Tip of the Week: Sharing your analysis process

13 May, 2009 (00:01) | Tip of the Week | By: Trey

We’ve introduced Galaxy (http://www.usegalaxy.org) before in the Tip of the Week section, have showed you one thing useful you could do with it, and now we also have a free tutorial and training materials that introduce you to the basic use of the tool. In today’s tip of the week, I’m going to show you [...]

What's your problem? Open Thread

3 April, 2008 (07:10) | General Science, Genomics Research, What's Your Problem? | By: Mary

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]

What's your problem? Open Thread

27 March, 2008 (08:17) | General Science, Genomics Research, What's Your Problem? | By: Mary

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]

What's Your Problem? Open Thread

20 March, 2008 (00:01) | Genomics News, What's Your Problem? | By: Trey

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]

What’s Your Problem? Open Thread

13 March, 2008 (07:54) | General Science, Genomics Research, What's Your Problem? | By: Mary

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]