An important new track in the UCSC Genome Browser provides text mining results from the literature to annotate genomic regions. For more details see http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=12420 .

An introduction to the Cannabis genome browser. For the paper and links, visit http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=11320 .

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

Select software for a project based on specific metrics. For details visit http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=9189

In this tip of the week by OpenHelix, I will briefly compare two great microbial databases - the UCSC Microbial Genome Browser & the Integrated Microbial Genomes or IMG resource. More details and microbial resources are included in the full post, which can be accessed at http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=5651