In this week’s tip I want to be sure you are aware of using MyNCBI database filters to divide your Entrez searches into useful subsets of records. This feature has been available from My NCBI for as long as I have been using it, but last week I was reminded again that not everyone is familiar [...]
That was the name of a talk that Lincoln Stein gave at the O’Reilly Bioinformatics Conference in 2003. I remember this conference really well for several reasons, including that talk….We were just starting our company (firmly in bioinformatics) and this was not exactly what I wanted to hear. It was also the first time I [...]
A recently sweep of the literature (courtesy of my standing My NCBI search) led me to another mitochondrial resource that I thought I would mention. MITOMASTER is the resource, and you can find details about it in this paper: MITOMASTER: a bioinformatics tool for the analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences. So of course I went [...]
We have a slide we like to present at some trainings showing the rise in the amount of raw sequence data and number of complete genomes over the last 18 years. There is another slide we show that indicates the rise of the number of databases and analysis tools over the years as listed in [...]
I don’t know how you start your Tuesdays, but I start mine with literature. And coffee. This morning, though, I wasn’t sure I had enough coffee. Every Monday evening NCBI runs some searches for me and sends me the results. I have several saved searches set up in the My NCBI system (a lot of [...]
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