The OpenHelix Blog

From Deepak Singh: Scientists spend years collecting and generating increasing amounts data. The data ranges from raw instrument data, “finished” data (e.g. a genome sequence which is constructed after aligning all the short reads from a next-gen sequencer), and annotated data, which has been marked up to add additional information. We have repositories where a [...]

Just saw on the GenomeWeb Daily News that:   “Researchers at Michigan State University, the University of Delaware, and Texas A&M worked with funding from the USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service to identify individual genes that are linked to MDV, or Marek’s disease, a highly contagious viral disease that costs the worldwide poultry [...]