Last year I had the opportunity to give a workshop in Ifrane Morocco (UCSC Genome and Table browsers, Galaxy) at Al Akhawayn University. This year, Mary and I returned for a longer 3-day workshop at University Hassan II in Mohammadia. OpenHelix was a co-sponsor of the workshop (donating our time, materials and expertise). The workshop [...]
Plaza, a resource for plant comparative genomics, has a lot more than meets the eye at first. Currently the database has comparative tools and data for nearly 2 dozen plants including monocots, dicots, mosses and algae. There are some obvious tools and data from the homepage, but I suggest you take a look at the [...]
Just thought our readers might like a heads up. I quote from a recent press release: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Oregon State University and Cornell University, creators of the Gramene Resource for Comparative Plant Genomics, partner with OpenHelix to offer online training on genomic resources to encourage diversity in science. The Resource for Comparative Grass [...]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Oregon State University and Cornell University, creators of the Gramene Resource for Comparative Plant Genomics, partner with OpenHelix to offer online training on genomic resources to encourage diversity in science. Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) April 22, 2010 — The creators of the Gramene Resource for Comparative Grass Genomics and OpenHelixannounce the availability of scholarships [...]
Now, I like to immerse myself in databases–including some pretty obscure species. But even I had no idea there was a dragon database. Snapdragon! http://www.antirrhinum.net/ I’m working on an update for our Gramene tutorial right now, so I’m all over plant resources and following some links today I found the dragon. There are some other [...]
I know sometimes I joke about “another day, another genome” as it seems like we can check off another genome daily. And as the next-gen technology spreads further that’s going to be even more common. It’s gotten me thinking a lot about which species ought to be done. And how will sequencing research teams choose? [...]
A newly enhanced database and resource is available to researchers called Phytozome. Phytozome is targeted as a hub of genomic data for plants of interest in biofuel research and a joint project of the DOE JGI and UC Berkeley’s Center for Integrative Genomics. As a recent press release states, The gene families available in Phytozome, [...]
I was reading a newsletter I get from Biotechniques, and their WebWatch often has some fun items. (You may need to get a free login to see the WebWatch.) This week they referred to the MaizeGDB database in the post Amaizing Base. Although I had been aware of MaizeGDB before, it was a nice reminder [...]
We used to joke in grad school about appropriate phrases to practice for the upcoming job interviews. I imagine they are still doing that….And my well-known love for any potato product earned me a potato cookbook as a graduation present from Trey. (I still have it and actually use it a lot–the herb potato fritters [...]
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. [...]
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