A recent NCBI Newsletter announced the release of a new resource named the 1000 Genomes Dataset Browser, and that is the resource that I will be featuring in this tip. It is one of the tools available through the new NCBI Variation resources page, which also features resources such as dbSNP, dbVar, dbGaP and ClinVar (many [...]
In looking through the 2012 Web Server Issue of NAR, Nucleic Acids Research journal, I couldn’t help notice resource names that revealed a bit about the developers’ sense of humor, such as “TaxMan” and “XXmotif“. There were others on the list (“MAGNET“, “GENIES” and “VIGOR“, for example) whose names made me cringe imagining someone trying [...]
Late last month the National Center for Biotechnology Information, or NCBI, released a new resource containing information on genetic tests. The resource’s name is the Genetic Testing Registry (GTR), and according to its homepage, the GTR: ” provides a central location for voluntary submission of genetic test information by providers. The scope includes the test’s purpose, methodology, validity, [...]
The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces two free webinars on the UCSC Genome Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/). The webinars will be conducted by OpenHelix, the provider of training on 100s of free, publicly accessible bioinformatics and genomics resources. The hour and 15 minute long webinars will cover the topics needed to effectively use this powerful, free, publicly-accessible tool. [...]
Brought to you by OpenHelix and BioMed Central . We really like the feature and idea (of course) and thought we’d pass it on. BioMed Central (BMC) is an open access publisher. BMC along with OpenHelix launched a new feature recently to give readers of BMC journals timely access to relevant genomic resource tutorials. When [...]
We usually don’t blog specifically about OpenHelix tutorial purchasing (we do that with press releases), it’s not the purpose of the blog, but I really wanted to give a quick heads up. Many of our tutorials are free to the end-user because the resource provider has funded the training and outreach. UCSC, ENCODE, PDB, VISTA, [...]
OpenHelix has had a newsletter for the last couple years. We send it to subscribers and others interested. It’s a bit of an open secret . Well, I (Trey) took over putting it together this year and am in the midst of doing our latest one, I thought I’d mention it on the blog. The [...]
This isn’t particularly genomics related, but interesting and related to our work here at OpenHelix. We are a semi-virtual company. Our scientists, including myself, work full time at home. We do have a physical office in Bellevue, Wa where the CEO and support staff work, but the rest of us (including Mary, Jennifer and I [...]
I’d like to point out the new NCBI Education page. There is a lot there that you might want to check out. NCBI will be, starting this fall, offering a series of two-day training courses they are calling Discovery Workshops. Two years ago they ended the NCBI Field Guide workshops, so this seems to be [...]
Our logo stylized DNA is left-handed. We know. We’ve known for a while. We saw it and we’ve periodically been told it. I’m saying it here now. Of course I can blame it on the business/graphics guy who did it, but hey, I guess you could say that us biologists should have caught it right [...]
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