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Description: This community brings together videos and audio files created by the rat research community who are using the rat as a critical model system for studying human health and disease. It is being organized by the Rat Genome Database team (http://rgd.mcw.edu) to promote rat research and the researchers that work in this area. It also includes bioinformatics and general interest videos that help rat researchers make the best use of online tools, databases and datasets.

We greatly welcome contributions from researchers using the rat as an model system in all areas but particularly for genomics, physiology, pharmacology, toxicology and neuroscience studies.
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This video provides a brief introduction to the new Ratmine (http://ratmine.mcw.edu) data warehouse and data mining tool released as part of the Rat Genome Database. It highlights some of Ratmine's key features and shows how to use Ratmine's Templates and Lists to find disease genes, common...

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Do you find that, like many who use biomedical ontologies, the only part of an ontology "annotation" you use is the ontology term itself? Perhaps you've noticed from time to time that there are some other things that seem to tag along with the ontology term but never really paid attention to...

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While reading an article or looking at a website, have you ever seen the term “ontology” and wondered what that meant? Do you hear people talking about using ontologies and ask yourself what the hubbub is about? This video is designed to help answer those questions. Here is a beginner’s...