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 @dullhunk: Waiting for @ewanbirney to reply to a tweet is like waiting for #godot, so [...]
BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions. We are members of the community 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 [...]
For another project I’m on, I had to research some of the sources of information around phenotyping experimental animal models. And just as I needed it, the RGD team produced a very nice screencast of access to the phenotyping data and resources that they offer about rat phenotyping. If you are interested in that type [...]
Today’s tip is on a new genotype/phenotype resource from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, or SIB. I was already a fan of many SIB tools and resources, and was using one (ENZYME) when I found a notice about SwissVar. SwissVar is described as ‘a portal to Swiss-Prot diseases and variants.’ It includes information about genotype-phenotype [...]
From the MGI mailing list the other day came notice of 2 new SNP sets that have been added to the Mouse Phenome Database SNP collection (MPD). From their note: – Center for Genome Dynamics (CGD) – SNP data from Mouse Diversity Genotyping Array (CGD2). 582,000+ locations and 72 strains. – Palmer A – SNP [...]
Today’s tip is on a new resource brought to you by the National Human Genome Research Institute, or NHGRI. The resource is PhenX Toolkit version 2.1, which was released on May 22 2009. The PhenX Toolkit provides protocols for taking standardized measurements of research subjects’ physical characteristics and their environmental exposures. You can browse for [...]
One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately are connections between genotype and phenotype – it is a topic in the news & I have been working on tutorials for the genotype-to-phenotype resources PhenomicDB & NCI’s dbGaP. Recently a friend notified of an article in Science featuring the PhysioNet – a resource intended to stimulate [...]
that was fun writing that title. A recent correspondence in Nature Genetics outlined some changes in the HuGE Navigator. This database has been available in some form since 2001. The basic purpose of the database is to… navigate and mine the growing scientific literature on human gene-disease associations and related data in human genome epidemiology. [...]
The bloggers here at OpenHelix and some of our family and friends decided to do the taste tests. You know the ones. You probably did them in your genetics class. I used them in my introductory biology class at CCSF years ago and had hundreds of the test strips left. So, we thought we’d distribute [...]
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