This week is a bit different than the usual “What’s the Answer?” post where we highlight a question from a forum that our readers might be interested in. However–in this post, one of the answers includes BioStar–so it sort of comes back around! Stephen Turner (aka @genetics_blog) wrote up a blog post recently in response [...]
NCBI was created in 1988 and has maintained the GenBank database for years. They also provide many computational resources and data retrieval systems for many types of biological data. As such they know all too well how quickly the data that biologists collect has changed and expanded. As uses for various data types have been [...]
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 [...]
Just got this notice in my mail–from Bioinformatics.org: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CS101 Introduction to Bioinformatics Programming July 28-29, 2011 *ON-SITE* in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ***This is a special offering of our introductory programming course, given in-person in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.*** OBJECTIVES: This course teaches IT specialists, entry level bioinformaticians and biologists to leverage Linux and [...]
The new tutorial reflects the many changes and enhancements on the RCSB PDB site, and includes a narrated on-line tutorial, PowerPoint slides, handouts, and exercises. Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) April 12, 2011 The Research Collaboratory for Structural Biology (RCSB) Protein Data Bank (PDB) has partnered with OpenHelix to provide a revised and updated tutorial (http://www.openhelix.com/PDB) on [...]
Free tutorial suite on the Structural Biology Knowledgebase includes an online narrated movie, PowerPoint slides, slide handouts and exercises. Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) April 11, 2011 The Structural Biology Knowledgebase (SBKB), a one-stop shop for information about proteins hosted at Rutgers University, has partnered with OpenHelix to provide an updated and revised free tutorial suite (http://www.openhelix.com/sbkb) [...]
Online tutorial gives researchers and scientists a place to learn about the many biology resources available to them. These links assist scientists by guiding them to relevant technical tutorials on resources which may be unfamiliar to them. Thanks to this partnership with OpenHelix, BioMed Central journals are able to make their scientific content more useful [...]
We usually don’t blog specifically about OpenHelix tutorial purchasing (we do that with press releases), it’s not the purpose of the blog, but I really wanted to give a quick heads up. Many of our tutorials are free to the end-user because the resource provider has funded the training and outreach. UCSC, ENCODE, PDB, VISTA, [...]
Would like to just announce that Mary and I will be giving an all-day hands-on workshop on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 in Washington DC (my home town), right before the ASHG conference (where we will also be). The title of the workshop is A World Tour of Genome Browsers and a Galaxy of Analysis Tools. [...]
Back in April I happened to mention that we (OpenHelix) were writing a paper on informal sources of bioinformatics education (in a Friday SNPets item) and we were asked to announce when the paper came out. Well, we got word late last week that the article has been published. The article appears in a special [...]
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