Genomes

A 5 minute tip on eggNOG, database of orthologous genes. Check out our blog post for more information: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=10634

Today's tip is on MapMi, a tool to map miRNA sequences to genomic sequences. See http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=10282 for more information

We use the Ensembl genome browser at www.ensembl.org to view small scale sequence variants such as SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphims) along with larger structural variations like CNVs (copy number variation) for the human ZAP70 gene.

This tip introduces a new feature at UCSC, Track Hubs. You can read more about it on the blog: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=9907

This week's tip is on using Galaxy to get flanking sequence. See http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=9808 for more information.

Tip of the week, converting genome coordinates between assemblies and genomes using Galaxy. Check out the blog post for more tools and information about this: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=8628

Talk for Metagenomics Conference

A brief reintroduction to the Encyclopedia of Life. See http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=7491 for more information about EoL and other life tree databases.

A tip of the week on using SNPTips to view your 23andme data. For more information about the tool see http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=7162

Towards establishing biomarkers of human ageing “European Study to Establish Biomarkers of Human Ageing (MARK-AGE)” brings together 26 groups located in 14 European countries. The scientific background is the following: The rate of ageing in humans is not uniform, age-related changes in body function or composition that could serve as a measure of “biological” age and predict the onset of age-related diseases and/or residual lifetime are termed “biomarkers of ageing”. Within the...