Getting Genetics Done

Thanks to the excellent work of Lucia Hindorff and colleagues at NHGRI, the GWAS catalog provides a great reference for the cumulative re...

I just read an interesting paper on pathogen discovery using next-generation sequencing data, recommended to me by Nick Loman. A previous...

The ENCODE project continues to generate massive numbers of data points on how genes are regulated.  This data will be of incredible use f...

A few folks have asked me how I get my news and stay on top of what's going on in my field, so I thought I'd share my strategy. With...

I'm a huge supporter of the Free and Open Source Software movement. I've written more about R than anything else on this blog, all ...

A few weeks ago I showed you how to convert gene IDs with BioMart . Yesterday I hosted a workshop on the Ensembl Genome Browser, given by Dr...

If you're doing any kind of big data analysis - genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, bioinformatics - then unless you've been on v...

I was reading through a paper on comparative ChIP-Seq when I found this awk gem that lets you get some very basic stats very quickly on next...