Tag: ICGC

Friday SNPpets

23 March, 2012 (08:04) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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 @m_m_campbell: Mutation mining. Useful overview of some of the tools to mine cancer genomics data. [...]

Friday SNPpets

16 March, 2012 (08:10) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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… Wow. This is impressive genomics. There are lots of places where Ag Biotech is ahead I [...]

Friday SNPpets

3 February, 2012 (09:00) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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 @elisandries: RT @AMNH: podcast: The Human Genome and Human Health: Will the Promise Be Fulfilled? http://t.co/ObDprhVC [...]

International Cancer Genome Consortium; interview with Tom Hudson

13 June, 2011 (08:26) | Genomics Resource News | By: Mary

We’ve talked about the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) before a number of times, and we had a Tip of the Week on the project and database last year. It may be time for a new tip because their site and software has changed. One of the very cool aspects of the data access is [...]

Friday SNPpets

10 June, 2011 (09:29) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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… Interesting story, but NOT what our legislation did, unfortunately: GINA does NOT cover life + long [...]

Mining the “big data” is…fascinating. And necessary.

21 March, 2011 (09:47) | Genomics Research | By: Mary

When we have workshops coming up, I spend some time tooling around in the big data to see if there have been changes since the last time I talked about it, update the slides if necessary, and sometimes forming a hypothesis and testing it. (PS: we’re at Baylor next, if anyone is looking for a [...]

Friday SNPpets

14 January, 2011 (08:55) | 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… Chromothripsis – new model for some cancers? From GenomeWeb Daily News. I’m interested in seeing follow [...]

Tip of the Week: A year of tips III (first half of 2010)

22 December, 2010 (09:00) | General Science, Genomics Research, Genomics Resource News, Tip of the Week | By: Mary

As you may know, we’ve been doing tips-of-the-week for three years now. We have completed around 150 little tidbit introductions to various resources*. At the end of the year we’ve established a sort of holiday tradition: we are doing a summary post to collect them all. If you have missed any of them it’s a [...]

The data isn’t in the papers anymore, you know.

16 September, 2010 (12:37) | Genomics News, Genomics Research | By: Mary

This week I was working on finishing up some training materials on the ENCODE data. We’ve talked about this before, and we’ve had some materials out already to support the ENCODE project, since we have a contract with the folks at UCSC to do some training on it. (The new materials should be out later [...]

Friday SNPpets

27 August, 2010 (09:00) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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… 12 Must-have iPhone Apps for Biomedical Research (thanks for the pingback, Walter!)  [Mary] Is the internet [...]