BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions. We are members of thecommunity and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those questions and answers here in this thread. You [...]
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 great way [...]
Ok, so this isn’t the same as our usual tips. But recently I was involved in an animal models project that led me to this resource on genomic pathology. The deeper I got into this animal model project, the more clear it became that a tremendous amount of genomic data is coming that is going [...]
One of the most common search terms that brings people to our site is colony management software, or some variation thereof. We’ve talked about some of the choices in the past: Animal Colony Management Software. We subsequently see a lot of interest in the free software from The Jackson Lab called JCMS as people click [...]
We are acutely aware of the thousands of bioinformatics resources out there, and we are often asked for guidance on finding a particular type of tool for some function or other. There are some excellent lists out there which attempt to catalog the various tools–the NAR Database Issue and corresponding list, the Resource Collection at [...]
Just a quick announcement I got from the Textpresso mailing list today: Hello! We have set up a full text search engine for mouse literature. It can be accessed at http://www.textpresso.org/mouse Any feedback is welcome. Please let us know what you think. The Textpresso Team. Welcome to Textpresso for Mouse! This is a pilot containing [...]
Ever since I was a post-doc at Jax, I’ve been on the MGI mailing list. Some days it brings back memories. Some days it brings laughter. The other day I had a major problem with the spam filter because the discussion was about: “Breeding from male with low sex drive” which, for obvious reasons, my [...]
From the Genome-Technology mailing list I found about about this software release from the Broad Institute: Broad Institute Makes Genomics Data Viewer Public By a GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has created a genomics informatics tool that will allow researchers to visualize genomic information, and [...]
A paper published today in PLoS One reports on research that shows the feasibility of taking a gene or genomic region from an extinct species and inserting it into the genome of an extant species and resurrect the extinct species DNA function in the transgenic mice. The extinct species was the Tasmanian tiger or Thylacine [...]
Comprehensive tutorials on the model organism bioinformatics databases FlyBase, WormBase and MGI enable researchers to quickly and effectively use these invaluable resources. OpenHelix today announced the availability of new tutorial suites on several model organism resources including FlyBase, WormBase and an update on the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) database. Model organisms are integral to our [...]
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