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An introduction to the Ratmine database

simont — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:25:58 -0800

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 pathways and display protein-protein interactions and more.

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Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies #2: Anatomy of an Ontology Annotation, part 1

jennifer.r.smith — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:22:00 -0700

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 those. Or perhaps you are just learning about ontologies and you want to know where the ontology "annotations" come from and what they are based on.

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Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies 1: What is an Ontology?

jennifer.r.smith — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:25:02 -0700

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 look at what an ontology is and why ontologies are an important tool in the scientist’s toolbox.

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Getting Started with GBrowse

jennifer.r.smith — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:28:47 -0700

So you've heard people talking about "Genome Browsers" but you've never used one and you're not quite sure where to start. This video is just what you've been looking for! We use the Rat Genome Browser at the Rat Genome Database as an example, but this information is applicable to any similar "GBrowse" tool. Check this out for a quick look at "Getting started with GBrowse".

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Finding polymorphic Rat SNPs using RGD's SNPlotyper tool

simont — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:09:43 -0700

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When it Comes to the Rat Genome, Bigger is Better

dabraham — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:50:01 -0700

The rat genome comes to life through the use of the Gviewer tool. This video will show you how to use this helpful tool within the RGD website at http://rgd.mcw.edu/. Genes, QTLs, and species syntenies of interest can all be visualized with ease as the Gviewer zooms in and navigates through the rat genome with a few clicks.

See our website at http://rgd.mcw.edu/ for more tools for rat researchers.

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It’s easy to get lost on the biological superhighway. Thankfully, we brought a map.

dabraham — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:05:27 -0700

Biological annotations and terms have gotten a makeover with RGD’s interactive pathway diagrams. The Rat Genome Database makes biological pathways and their components easy to navigate and analyze through this newly added diagrams feature at http://rgd.mcw.edu/wg/pathway?100. This video will show you how to easily access, view, and gather information from these diagrams and all the great tools they offer.
See our RGD website at http://rgd.mcw.edu for more information and tools for researchers...

Word Add-in for Ontology Recognition

Some prefer blue jeans...RGD prefers disease genes

dabraham — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:24:19 -0700

Who knew you could find disease genes without even stepping into the laboratory? This video provides a tutorial on how to utilize the Disease Portals on the Rat Genome Database website at http://rgd.mcw.edu/wg/portals. These portals allow you to search for disease, phenotype, biological process, and pathway specific rat, mouse, and human genes and data.
See our RGD website at http://rgd.mcw.edu for more information and tools for researchers...

Rat Research

Sleeping Beauty Invades Rat's Genome

simont — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:58:25 -0700

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Two quick tips to stay on top of literature and other online information using Google

simont — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:38:49 -0700

Behind in the literature? Losing track of valuable web pages and information you found online? This brief video shows how to use some of Google's free tools, Notebook and Reader, to help you manage these problems. You can use Google Notebook as an online scrapbook to instantly save pieces of text, web pages and even images to your own personal notebook. You can use Google Reader to help you get on top of the literature and then stay on top without any extra effort.

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Installing and using the BioBar toolbar for Firefox

simont — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:09:31 -0800

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