There’s great stuff in genome databases. And there’s great stuff in the literature. Sometimes there are clear links between the two–awesome curators work hard to source quality information, and sometimes automated processes can help. Of course, there’s also tons of stuff flowing into databases that’s not made it into the literature yet and may not [...]
eGIFT, as the tag line says, is a tool to extract gene information from text. It’s a tool that allows you to search for and explore terms and documents related to a gene or set of genes. There are many ways to search and explore eGIFT, find genes given a specific term, find terms related [...]
We’ve all seen the discussions – on twitter, in journals, lots of places – on how to collect, store, find and use all the data that is and will be generated. Here at OpenHelix we believe that there is a gold mine of bioscience data that is being vastly underutilized, and our goal is to [...]
If you go over to the OpenHelix home page, you’ll start to notice some differences. Our tutorial landing pages have an added new feature. We now have a section on each landing page that shows the most recent research in the BioMed Central journals. For example, the screenshot here is for our GeneMANIA tutorial suite. [...]
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 [...]
In today’s tip I want to make you aware of a tool that I think will help researchers to present their own data and publications in an accurate and universally searchable way. I learned of the resource (UCSDBioLit) through an article in one of my recent BioMed Central article alert emails. This resource allows authors [...]
This week’s tip is a bit off-topic (as in genomics databases), but it is science/biology-related and something we all need. There are a lot of reference management software possibilities out there like EndNote, some great web 2.0 social networking sites like Connotea (Nature Publishing) and CiteULike (Springer) and some PDF management tools. Mendeley wants to [...]
I remember considering the “Impact Factor” of journals when submitting research papers, and wondering what the impact factor of a specific paper I published might be out of curiosity. Not particularly seriously, my field was narrow enough in my Ph.D. research that there were just a few journals to even consider, so it was usually [...]
A couple of weeks ago we brought you a tip of the week about the CHOP CNV Database. The same people who bring you that database also do FABLE (Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction), a literature mining tool. The tool uses an advanced algorithm to find Human genes that are directly related to the keywords [...]
So, I wrote about defunding resources and briefly mentioned a paper in Database about funding (or ‘re’funding) databases and resources. I’d like to discuss this a bit further. The paper, by Chandras et. al, discusses how databases and, to use their term, Biological Resource Centers (BRCs) are to maintain financial viability. Let me state first, [...]
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