Interested in integrating data from clinical genetic testing and the literature in a single place? ClinVar aggregates information from a variety of sources about sequence variation and its relationship to human health in a single centralized location. from Intro to ClinVar: The goal of ClinVar is to provide a freely accessible, public archive of reports [...]
Entries Tagged as 'variation'
NCBI’s ClinVar
November 9th, 2012 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:2012, clinical, gene, genetic, informatics, NCBI, repository, sequence, variation
dbVar — Database of Genomic Structural Variation
September 30th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
The folks at NCBI are at it again! They’ve recently launched the Database of Genomic Structural Variation or dbVar. dbVAR “contains information about large-scale genomic variation, including large insertions, deletions, translocations and inversions. dbVar also provides associations of defined variants with phenotype information” and will contribute to our understanding of how differences in DNA contribute [...]
OpenHelix Tutorials Now Available
April 27th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
The Becker Medical Library has purchased a campus subscription to OpenHelix giving faculty, students and staff access to over 90 tutorial suites on bioinformatics and genomic resources. OpenHelix provides tutorials covering many types of resources including protein databases, bioinformatics analysis tools, model organism databases, SNP databases, comparative genomics, pathway and interaction resources and much more. [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, database, genome browser, genomics, informatics, Information, sequence, software, tutorial, variation, visualization, Washington University
Database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVar) released
March 22nd, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
From NCBI News: The newly released Database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVar) contains data and analyses from studies on large-scale genomic variation and provides associations of defined variants with phenotype information. The dbVar homepage provides additional documentation including an overview of structural variation, a Frequently Asked Questions list, and information on submitting data. A dbVar RSS feed [...]
