As many of you know, OpenHelix specializes in helping people access and utilize the gold mine of public bioscience data in order to further research. One of the ways that we do this is by creating materials to train people – researchers, clinicians, librarians, and anyone interested in science - on where to find data they are interested [...]
The advance access release of most of the NAR database issue articles is out. As usual, this this database issue includes a wealth of new and updated data repositories and analysis tools. We’ll be writing up additional more extensive blog posts on it and doing some tips of the week over the next couple months, [...]
Last year I had the opportunity to give a workshop in Ifrane Morocco (UCSC Genome and Table browsers, Galaxy) at Al Akhawayn University. This year, Mary and I returned for a longer 3-day workshop at University Hassan II in Mohammadia. OpenHelix was a co-sponsor of the workshop (donating our time, materials and expertise). The workshop [...]
It’s probably just the human brain’s ability to connect dots & find patterns, but it can be interesting how many “unrelated” events and information bits accumulate in my head & eventually get mulled into an idea or theory. Take, for example, a recent biotech mixer, bits from an education leadership series & a past Nature [...]
In today’s tip I am going to feature a resource that I found recently. I’ve been updating our dbSNP tutorial, which Mary & Trey will be presenting at workshops in Morocco, and also our free PDB tutorial, which is sponsored by the RCSB PDB team. I have therefore been thinking about protein structures and small [...]
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 [...]
In our ongoing pursuit of up-to-date tutorials, I’ve been tracking changes that are occurring at resources and planning our updates accordingly. Protein resources are especially going to keep me out of trouble this summer, because their developers and curators have been busy! I’ve compiled a short synopsis below, and would appreciate [...]
Today’s Tip of the Week is a short introduction to WAVe, or the Web Analysis of the Variome. The tool was recently introduced to us, and I’ve found it a welcome introduction to the tools available to the researcher to analyze human variation. This is apropos considering the recent paper we’ve been discussing on the clinical [...]
The Lancet paper, Clinical assessment incorporating a personal genome, has held my fascination this weekend (yes, I read it at the beach). Mary posted Friday and again Saturday on the paper and related NPR segment. It feels to me to be a seminal paper, though I do agree with Daniel at Genetic Future, there are [...]
If you are a biomedical researcher, have you ever used protein databases like UniProt to get information about proteins that you are interested in? Do you know how that database got there? I don’t mean today, I mean decades ago—how did a resource like this come to even exist at all? When researchers search a [...]
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