While I was on the road last week–ironically to do workshops including one on ENCODE data in the UCSC Genome Browser, a conflama erupted over a new paper that was published essentially spanking the ENCODE team for some of the claims they made. Some of the first notes I saw: Wow – brutal (IMO excessive) [...]
Integrating large data sets for queries within–and across–various collections is one of the arenas that has lately been pretty active in bioinformatics. As more and more “big data” projects yield huge numbers of data points and data types, this is only becoming more necessary. I love to browse data, but there are times when a [...]
Hello folks: the team at UCSC involved with the ENCODE project is really interested in hearing from ENCODE data users about their interactions with the data. They’ve created a usability survey, and it would really help them out if you could offer your thoughts on this. Go to a gateway page, and you’ll see the [...]
Another of the “big data” projects that is underway is the ENCODE project, or Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, to provide comprehensive annotation of genomic elements. Some people are aware of this and are using the data already. If you aren’t, you should check out the online tutorial, freely available because it is sponsored by the [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link dump: 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… Idle computers for active research: read the article from GenomeWeb. [Jennifer] NAR Annual Web Server issue for [...]
We’ve talked about the ENCODE data before, and you can see a number of entries about the project with the ENCODE tag. But last week I came across the ENCODE paper in the Nucleic Acids Research Advanced Access collection, so it seemed like a good time to review some of the information about this project. [...]
This week’s Tip of the Week is a bit different than some of the others that I have done in the past. I’m going to take you through parts of a document–the newly released draft of the Data Release Policy for ENCODE (go over to this page at NHGRI and get a copy of the [...]
We have talked about the ENCODE project before–both the successful pilot project and the current new phase of the ENCODE project that is going genome-wide, beyond the 1% coverage of the pilot project. One thing you may have noticed about the ENCODE data we talked about at the UCSC Genome Browser, though, is that it [...]
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