I’m not sure any more when I signed up for complementary copies of Nature Methods, but just like clockwork my copy arrives each month. If you’d like to get it too, you can apply for a subscription here (Firefox seems to work better than IE, btw). This month’s issue particularly interested me because it contains a focus on Bioimage Informatics. [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link dump: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Deepak Singh blogs about the need for developers and more support and appreciation for developers and the [...]
Recently there was much buzz in the #bioinformatics twittersphere over this blog post by Sean Eddy: The next five years of computational genomics at NHGRI It is a very nice post about some exciting prospects for the future. The idea of planning “explicitly for sustainable exponential growth” is wise. There will be no abatement of [...]
Got phylogeny? So, you’ve created a phylogeny using some software and would like to draw the tree from the Newick formatted file* you exported. Of course there is no shortage of tree drawing programs out there (or phylogeny generating ones either). We found another one recently; a web-based, API-usable, opensource tree drawing tool that is [...]
Genome-wide association studies (GWA/GWAS) generate a lot of data that needs to be viewed and analyzed. There are some software tools out there to do that, including UCSC’s Genome Graphs. I haven’t looked at it in detail yet, but this new downloadable, java viewer was recently developed and reported in Bioinformatics: AssociationViewer (download here). I’m [...]
Long ago, when our blog was young (less than 2 months old – where does the time go?), Mary wrote a post about the pedigree drawing programs that she knew of, or that were mentioned on the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) mailing list. There has been so much interest in that post, as judged by [...]
A question across the MGI mailing list this weekend was: “Is there a good, easy to use template/program for drawing pedigrees that someone could recommend?” So far the suggestions include: Pedigree Draw: http://www.pedigree-draw.com/ A mac-only tool available for purchase. Pedigree Viewer: http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~bkinghor/pedigree.htm is a free tool, for Windows. Another suggestion came for HaploPainter: http://haplopainter.sourceforge.net/html/index.html this [...]
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