Just wanted to share some excellent resources in bioinformatics that I happened to catch on Twitter this morning. Both are dedicated issues and both are freely available online (yay!): The BioMart Virtual Issue from Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation (HT @emblebi). If you haven’t had a chance to play with BioMart, please [...]
Entries Tagged as 'EBI'
Worthwhile reads in bioinformatics…
November 21st, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:bioinformatics, EBI, genome browser, informatics, Information, journal
Bioinformatics Tutorials
August 10th, 2009 by Kristi · 1 Comment
There are a number of great tutorials on the web for bioinformatics-related applications and topics. Here are a few that I’ve run across. Are there any missing? Feel free to add any that I might have left out in the ‘comments’ section! BioInformatics Tutorials Series (BITS) from Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard and the [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, BLAST, database, EBI, education, Ensembl, genome, genome browser, helpful, informatics, Information, NCBI, resources, sequence, tool, tutorial, webinar
BioCatalogue
July 2nd, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
BioCatalogue is a new online biological resource collection. BioCatalogue was officially released yesterday at ISMB 2009 ( See Professor Goble’s slides: bioit09-biocatalogue-goble.ppt). There are over 1,000 different resources contained in the catalog. The strength and usefulness of this resource to a broad research community will be determined by how many resources eventually make it into the database. For comparison, [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, database, EBI, helpful, informatics, Information, research, resources, Web 2.0
Gene Expression Atlas at EBI
June 15th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Announced today: Mapping gene expression with Gene Expression Atlas Today, researchers at EMBL-EBI launch a new database, the Gene Expression Atlas, which allows scientists to search and compare gene expression data at unprecedented detail and scope. Observing how gene expression varies in different cell types, tissues and under disease conditions can help researchers understand gene [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, database, EBI, expression
Upcoming courses from EBI
March 23rd, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
In an email from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) this morning: We have two courses now coming up for registration deadline. If you or your colleagues are interested in attending please visit our training pages for full information on these two courses. Please circulate this information as appropriate Programmatic Access: to biological databases (Java) – [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, course, EBI, tutorial
Hands-on training at EBI – Sequence to Genes: Genome Informatics
January 15th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
This looks like a good opportunity for anyone who might be able to attend: Registration is now open for the Sequence to Genes course at the EBI. This course will provide you with an overview of various nucleotide sequence and genome resources at the EBI. Participants should have a basic understanding of molecular biology. Applicants [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, BLAST, course, database, EBI, event, informatics, software
