Tag: Nature

Instruction precedes innovation

25 April, 2012 (16:07) | Genomics Research | By: Trey

OpenHelix is founded on the premise and Mary made the point again recently on a guest post on Nature Blogs: SciVee – Making Science Visible. Do you RTFM? C’mon—tell the truth. When you approach some new software, do you read the freakin’ manual first? Yeah. Thought so. Not to worry, it’s a common phenotype. In [...]

Friday SNPpets

4 February, 2011 (09:00) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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… RT @32nm: ISCB Public Policy Statement on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Research Literature — [...]

Friday SNPpets

21 January, 2011 (09:00) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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… Working my way through: @eurogene: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Summary of a Workshop (IoM) – Nat Acad. [...]

Friday SNPpets

2 April, 2010 (00:01) | SNPpets | By: Trey

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… ROFL: Marriage vs PhD illustrated comparison. Hat Tip James. [Mary] DGV: Database of Genomic Variants newsletter [...]

"Genomic Data Resources: Challenges and Promises" Published in Nature Education

31 January, 2009 (15:55) | OpenHelix News | By: Trey

Authors Warren Lathe, Donna Karolchik and other members of OpenHelix give an introduction to online, publicly available genomics resources at www.nature.com/scitable. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) February 11, 2009 — OpenHelix today announced the publishing of an article introducing and exploring the many online genomics resources available to the public. With over 3,000 genomic resources, tools and [...]

Data and how to handle it – biocuration and beyond

29 September, 2008 (15:37) | General Science, Genomics News | By: Jennifer

I was enjoying a wonderfully wet, gray autumn day – you know the kind – just perfect for curling up and reading a good book with a hot cup of tea. I figured I’d just indulge in a little break from writing & revising drafts of tutorials and publications. I was going to allow myself [...]

Metagenomes in Nature

2 June, 2008 (22:26) | Genomics Research, Genomics Resource News | By: Trey

Nature had a nice feature on metagenomics last week and another on the Human microbiome metagenomics. You’ll need to have a subscription to access those , but the gist of the latter news feature is the possibilities of Human microbiome research, pros and cons and the projects out there. There are a lot. In order [...]