Just over a month ago an issue of Nature had two articles from the Human Microbiome Project Consortium – you may have seen them, or noticed the Friday SNPets items we had on them. I promised myself that I’d read the articles (which I did), and that I’d visit my old friends the IMG (Integrated [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Metagenomics, which is really a new area of study (barely this last decade) in comparison to most biological areas of research, is already making into the mainstream press. The New York Times has an article yesterday entitled “Bacteria thrive in the inner Elbow, No Harm Done” (you’ll need a free registration to read that). The [...]
Hey, just a quick post to let you know about the upcoming user meeting for the Joint Genome Institute, which is occurring March 26-28th in Walnut Creek, CA. I’ve blogged about the JGI’s phenominal Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) resource & that will be discussed as well as LOTS of other interesting stuff. You can check [...]
Recently I was watching a show about the beginning of life on Earth, and they were talking about how important Cyanobacteria was for making oxygen available for other life forms. As they talked about astrobiology and the search for other inhabitable planets, it occurred to me that I know a way of searching for microbes associated [...]
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