In the latest update of Ensembl, the developers added the ability to save configurations. This allows you to set your track views and analysis to a specific configuration and load that configuration at a later time. The blog post linked previously (or here) explains the steps to creating your own configurations you can save and [...]
Here at OpenHelix we think a lot about the differences between nominally similar software that will accomplish some given task. For example, in our workshops we are often asked about the differences between genome browsers. Although UCSC sponsors our workshops and training materials on their browser, we know they aren’t the only genome browser out [...]
There are a number of genome browsers out there–we’ve covered that a number of times. And there are always new ones coming along. With the onslaught of sequence data we’re about to get from high-throughput sequencing, more and more research groups, communities, and individuals are going to need to choose a genome browser to use [...]
Mary pointed out (and I’ve Tivo’d for my daughter, the great lover of rats) that the History channel had a special on rats recently. Well, not to be outdone, Nature Genetics May issue is all about rats. There are some great articles in that issue about rat genetics and rat genetics as a model for [...]
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