This week's tip is how to get gene family phylogenies from Plaza, a plant comparative genomics resources. More information here: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=9664

A quick tip introducing how to access the dot plot and synteny information of VISTA. CHeck out the blog post for more information: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=8185

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.