Most weeks our tip is a five-minute movie that quickly introduces you to a new resource, or a cool new function at an established resource. Occasionally we feature one of our full resource tutorial that is being made freely available through resource sponsorship of our training suite. In this week’s tip we provide access to [...]
Comprehensive tutorials on the ASTD, Entrez Protein, and MMDB databases enable researchers to quickly and effectively use these invaluable variation resources. Seattle, WA September 24, 2008 — OpenHelix today announced the availability of new tutorial suites on the Alternative Splicing and Transcript Diversity (ASTD) database, Entrez Protein and the Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB). ASTD is [...]
This is just a quick note about a handy tool that I have found very useful to display possible motifs or promoter sequences from an alignment in a graphical manner. We are working on a suite of tutorials on motif identification, and one of the nice ways to display the data when you are finished [...]
One of my favorite mailing lists is the mouse researcher discussion list at The Jackson Lab. I think is the list to which I have been subscribed the longest in my career. It is moderated (never spammed), it has a great community of mouse researchers, and they discuss a range of things–benchwork to bioinformatics. There [...]
In the previous post I briefly mentioned a paper coming out of the Bork lab at EMBL. The lab just made public a new tool: STITCH, “a resource to explore known and predicted interactions of chemicals and proteins.” This is a sister project to STRING, a great tool for exploring the interactions of proteins
For years I have been following the NAR database issue, watching the growth in the number of resources from a handful years ago to the hundreds lately. It is great to see what new resources have been added each year–there are people who are solving genomics problems in really creative ways. Last year (2007) there [...]
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