Tag: polysearch

Video Tips of the Week: Annual Review IV, 2nd half

4 January, 2012 (08:11) | Tip of the Week | By: Trey

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 [...]

What’s the Answer? Metabolomic databases

6 October, 2011 (08:06) | What's the Answer? | By: Trey

BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions. We are members of thecommunity 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 thread. You can [...]

Tip of the Week: PolySearch

13 July, 2011 (08:17) | Tip of the Week | By: Trey

Polysearch is a tool that allows you to search many different databases at once with a query “given X find all associated Y.” For example, given a pathway, find all associated drugs or given a gene find all associated diseases. I’ve found the tool to be quite helpful. The tool was listed in last week’s [...]