Earlier this year I did a tip on the 3D Virtual Worm browser from the OpenWorm team. At that time, there wasn’t a publication to accompany that post. And since these tools get much more visibility when the posts go to ScienceSeeker and Research Blogging I wanted to revisit this now that there is a [...]
In this era of big data and computational tools, it’s easy to generate huge amounts of texty and statistical data that offers great insights into biology, and delivers leads to design experiments in actual organisms and cells. But the cell and developmental biologist in me still yearns for great visualization tools to explore the results, [...]
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, [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: 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… And we’ll monitor this so we can update our tutorial on WormBase when the new interface [...]
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… A bit of a dust-up at ScienceBlogs as they added a corporate blog (Pepsi writing about nutrition [...]
Yes, I know, but I used to be resistant to blogging too…. I’m starting to get a number of announcements about Twitter feeds from bioinformatics resource groups. I think it’s time to start a collection of those. This post will have a couple to get started, but I’m going to use this as a collector [...]
NHGRI recently pointed out our new set of tutorials on model organism databases (funded mainly by NHGRI on their home page, genome.gov. Always nice to be recognized . And it gives me the opportunity to again point out that we do indeed have seven publicly available tutorials and training materials (slides, exercises, etc) on model [...]
For the tip of the week today, we’d like to point out a number of new (free to you) tutorials on model organism database resources. These seven tutorials (include flash movie tutorial, slides for downloading, exercises and handouts) were partly funded by a NHGRI grant. We just put out a press release on this, but [...]
OpenHelix today announced the free availability of tutorial suites on model organism databases and resources used extensively in research. The first tutorial suites available are GBrowse, Rat Genome Database (RGD), Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), and WormBase. To be added in the coming weeks are Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), FlyBase and Saccharomyces (Yeast) Genome Database (SGD). [...]
I was reading a newsletter I get from Biotechniques, and their WebWatch often has some fun items. (You may need to get a free login to see the WebWatch.) This week they referred to the MaizeGDB database in the post Amaizing Base. Although I had been aware of MaizeGDB before, it was a nice reminder [...]
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