As you may know, we’ve been doing these video tips-of-the-week for FOUR years now. We have completed around 200 little tidbit introductions to various resources from last year, 2011 (yep, it’s 2012 now). At the end of the year we’ve established a sort of holiday tradition: we are doing a summary post to collect them all. If you have [...]
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… And we’ll monitor this so we can update our tutorial on WormBase when the new interface [...]
Plaza, a resource for plant comparative genomics, has a lot more than meets the eye at first. Currently the database has comparative tools and data for nearly 2 dozen plants including monocots, dicots, mosses and algae. There are some obvious tools and data from the homepage, but I suggest you take a look at the [...]
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… I couldn’t figure out the folklore part, but this handy little interface called Matrix2png takes lists [...]
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 [...]
Aside from a short stint at the ASHG meeting, where it is all about the human genome with a smidge of attention to the microbes that hang around with us, I’m back and I’m focusing on plant resources again. Recently I began to explore the Sol Genomics Network site, and that will be the focus [...]
I really enjoy reading ScienceBlogs. There are high quality science communicators over there. And I get to read current stuff in my field, and it’s a nice place to read some of the other fields too–with a lower barrier of entry than trying to read physics papers, for example. But one thing I thought was [...]
Today’s tip is on a TARGeT. TARGeT is, as the the paper’s title in the this year’s NAR’s issue states, “a web-based pipeline for retrieving and characterizing gene and transposable element families from genomic sequences.” There are several things you can do at TARGeT. Using BLAST, PHI BLAST, MUSCLE and TreeBest ,the main function of [...]
For this tip of the week we look at a text-mining tool for the Arabidopsis literature, Plan2L, or PLant ANnotation to Literature. It has a very straightforward interface that permits searching of the paper space, and you can do that with a variety of focal points: the bibliome as a whole, or with emphasis on [...]
Scrolling through some of my regular podcasts the other day I came across this tidbit about bioinformatics growing in New York (among other things, or course!): Barcoding Plant DNA (I hope the embed of the audio file works, first time I’m trying that…) It is a discussion with Dr. Damon Little, a curator of bioinformatics [...]
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