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 [...]
There are a number of genome browsers out there. Some of them are big and institutional installations and are crucial to research today for a wide range of users. But as we increasingly see that more and more sequence data becomes available on species that have smaller communities, or maybe patient or family sets, or [...]
BioMart is widely-used data management open-source software, with an interface that enables end-users to generate complex and customized queries across many types and sources of biological data. It’s part of the GMOD tool kit, and many project teams that have big data have chosen the BioMart software to organize and make their data available to [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I got some meeting reminders that I want to pass on to you. The GMOD Spring Training March 5-6 Durham North Carolina still has openings. You can read more here. the abstract submission deadline for the Galaxy Community Conference is next Monday, February 28. See here for details.
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… RT @32nm: ISCB Public Policy Statement on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Research Literature — [...]
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 [...]
I’m catching up with some mailing lists and news and I came across this interesting tidbit from our friends in the GMOD community. We are huge supporters of curation by humans for a couple of reasons: 1) we know the quality of that information can be the best and it captures so much of the [...]
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… RoBuST “has been developed as root and bulb plant community research platform for integrated analysis of [...]
Got an announcement over the weekend for this adventure in coding–sounds useful: Tools for Evolutionary Biology Hackathon November 8-12, 2010 NESCent, Durham, North Carolina, USA We are seeking participants for the GMOD Tools for Evolutionary Biology Hackathon, held November 8-12, 2010 at the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, NC. This hackathon targets three [...]
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