It is often beneficial to visit multiple biomedical databases or resources, even if they seem to provide overlapping information because no two resources focus on the exact same information, or present it in exactly the same way. Instead of duplicating each others’ curation efforts, database often link out to related information at other resources. You [...]
Bioinformatics resources can be really complex–sometimes daunting, heavily loaded with crucial data, and provide amazing visualization of large data sets and various features of the underlying data. And other times, that’s way more than you need. Overkill. Like aiming an elephant gun at a mosquito. A couple of times in the last week I was [...]
In our ongoing pursuit of up-to-date tutorials, I’ve been tracking changes that are occurring at resources and planning our updates accordingly. Protein resources are especially going to keep me out of trouble this summer, because their developers and curators have been busy! I’ve compiled a short synopsis below, and would appreciate [...]
As I say in the tip movie, I like to visit NCBI’s homepage & just roam around over there to get an idea of what’s new. They develop so many bioscience tools, algorithms & other resources that there’s always SOMETHING new. Today I found out that they have updated their Cn3D interactive 3D viewer software [...]
Our “What’s Your Problem” post will be transitioning to a “What’s the Answer” post this week and going forward. 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 [...]
In today’s tip I will introduce you briefly to the changes at NCBI’s Protein database. I highlighted that changes had been made in a Friday SNPets, and someone asked for more details. Our full updated tutorial will be much more complete than this short tip, so be watching for that to be completed in the [...]
When this week’s sweep through the literature led me to a new resource on a topic that we haven’t covered in the past, I was psyched. But then it led me even further to find a bunch of other resources and strategies that I hadn’t been exposed to before. And yet it is an area [...]
MINT, the Molecular INTeraction Database, is so much fun to use. I know–there is high-quality curated information from the scientific literature. And that’s the real point. But quite frankly, I just love to examine the protein-protein interactions in the MINT viewer. In this brief (about 3 minutes) exploration of some of the high-level features of [...]
We find that many people are interested in learning more about the domains in their proteins of interest. A great tool to use to examine the domains, their architecture/organization, and their relationships is SMART, the Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool. It is developed and maintained by the Bork lab at EMBL (a source of many [...]
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