I’ve been surfing the web a lot the last couple days for genomics stuff, so here is another short post on something I found (probably the other OH bloggers know this already, but it’s knew to me . The Rat Genome Database has a disease portal. These portals offer disease-specific data and right now include [...]
Mary pointed out (and I’ve Tivo’d for my daughter, the great lover of rats) that the History channel had a special on rats recently. Well, not to be outdone, Nature Genetics May issue is all about rats. There are some great articles in that issue about rat genetics and rat genetics as a model for [...]
Just a quick note, based on a reminder I just got from the Rat (RGD) mailing list: Hello, This is just a reminder that “Modern Marvels: Rats” premieres this evening at 8pm ET/PT on the History Channel. Please see the forwarded email below for more details. Regards, Your friends at RGD The details were covered [...]
Another mailing list I’m on is the RGD (Rat Genome Database) mailing list. It isn’t a hugely busy mailing list, but it has discussion of rat experiemental biology, tools, updates on RGD, important publications, etc. The most recent hot topic was the whitepaper in support of Rat research, which we learned recently will be published [...]
A call came from RGD this week across their mailing list. They are doing a “white paper” to accompany a group of research papers are coming out in Nature Genetics. You can read the paper and become a signatory on this paper, demonstrating your support for rat genome research. There is a podcast right on [...]
Ok, well not exactly (wouldn’t that be nice). What do Ensembl, Gramene, Reactome, Wormbase, HapMap and RGD databases all have in common? (other than “.org” ) They all have a search mechanism powered by the same software, BioMart. [link fixed; Mary] In this week’s tip we take a real quick look at these and other [...]
Dark sheep, that is. A study in the new issue of Science (subscription required) reports that some dark sheep on a Scottish island are yielding a phenotype difference that is not what you might expect from the selection on the genotype. The darker sheep are larger in size, which was expected to correlate directly with [...]
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