So, I wrote about defunding resources and briefly mentioned a paper in Database about funding (or ‘re’funding) databases and resources. I’d like to discuss this a bit further. The paper, by Chandras et. al, discusses how databases and, to use their term, Biological Resource Centers (BRCs) are to maintain financial viability. Let me state first, [...]
For today’s tip I am going to continue with the theme I started yesterday – obtaining swine flu information. There are many wonderful viral resources that are publicly available. I linked to NCBI’s Influenza Virus Resource in yesterdays post, and you can watch past tips that Trey has done tips on the Viral Bioinformatics Resource [...]
Recently, we are learning a lot about the cold virus. The genomes of many have now been sequenced (that is a subscription-required Science report, you can read more about the report here). You can find more genomic information at the picornaviridae.com at the NCBI’s Entrez Genomes and some structural information at MMDB. (just a side [...]
I’m on a few local mailing lists, including the one for MassHighTech. I was perusing the news today and saw this tidbit: URI taps De Groot to head new vaccine research center ….The purpose of the new program, called the Institute for Immunology and Informatics, is to create vaccines to prevent AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, dengue [...]
Hey, say you’ve got a bacterial genome you just sequenced in your spare time (hey, the way technology is going, it’s not far off) and you need to do a quick and dirty annotation to get you started. Well, there are several tools out there to do that, predict genes, annotate regions, etc. I’d like [...]
This week’s tip introduces a nice feature and tool of the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (VBRC). There are a lot of great tools at the VBRC to search and analyze hundreds of viral genomes. Most, if not all, of the tools can be used for searching and analyzing bacterial genomes also. The tool we are [...]
I just spent a bit over an hour getting some one-on-one time with Chris Upton at Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center. He was showing me the tools and resources they have (we used the new screensharing iChat feature of Leopard OS 10.5, that alone was worth the cost of upgrading to 10.5 this week, or even [...]
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