Of downtown Boston, at Tufts Medical Center, singing the praises of IMG and the Integrated Microbial Genomes resources. I love workshops that only require a trip on the Orange Line. Today we were doing the World Tour of Genomics Resources. Tomorrow it is UCSC Genome Browser (intro + advanced), and Thursday ENCODE. So if you [...]
For this week’s Tip of the Week we highlight our new tutorial on OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. If you haven’t looked at OMIM for a while, or if you usually only think about it as a link in some other database you use, look again. There’s more there than you realize. OMIM is [...]
BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions. We are members of the community and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those questions and answers here in this [...]
FYI, ICYMI: RT @GenomeBrowser: Power will be out on UCSC campus Dec 27-28. We will endeavor to keep the Genome Browser running. Please bear with us. Just in case, here are the mirrors listed on their site: UCSC supports and maintains the following mirror site that may be used during network or power outages on [...]
Or, more specifically, a fish genome on Friday. I was watching the twitter feeds the other day and caught this announcement, but hadn’t had time to check out the details until today. New browsers for a whole menagerie: Manatee, Squirrel Monkey, Atlantic Cod, Coelacanth, Budgerigar, Sloth, Hedgehog, Mouse Lemur, and more! — UCSC Genome Browser [...]
In case you missed it, Friday evening this piece came over the ENCODE announcement mailing list: ENCODE transitions Today marks the end of 5 years of ENCODE whole-genome data production, and the project is now transitioning to a new phase. The newly constituted project has been announced by NHGRI in the press release here: http://www.genome.gov/27550184 [...]
In this 5 minute tip I want to offer a constructive way to start to engage with ENCODE data. When the ENCODE consortium publications were released last week, a media blitzkrieg ensued. Soon after, there was a backlash by scientists based on some of the claims that they were seeing made. Some of the issues [...]
My social media is abuzz with ENCODE publications and chatter right now. Some of the things I’d recommend (besides the huge collection of papers and Nature site, of course) or that made me laugh: ENCODE project team leader Ewan Birney’s insights: ENCODE: My own thoughts Guardian: Thousands of ‘genes’ found in parts of genome dismissed [...]
Sweet! Take a peek at the shiny new look of the UCSC Genome Browser! Currently the “News” item on the landing page has a shot and some details, but have a look at a segment of the current human assembly for a better sense of it. It also involves a few changes to the upper [...]
There is some really terrific data flowing into the UCSC Genome Browser from the ENCODE project. And now we have updated our tutorials to catch you up on the tracks and strategies to explore that wealth of information. Near the beginning of the ENCODE production phase, we created a tutorial to introduce folks to the [...]
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