What software do you use to draw chromosomes with G-banding pattern and plot data alongside each chromosome? I'm interested in different kind of plots - lines, points, bars, etc - …

Hi everyone, As input files, I use swissprot files. I have a perl script which parses all the enter code herefiles to retieve all the EMBL ids and GeneID from the DR features lin …

Given some genomic data in a well-known format (e.g. GFF) with gene models, what tool(s) do you use to visualize that data. What tools allow you to add your own tracks of data eas …

Do you aim to make your resources as widely available and reusable as possible? Conversely, do you try to protect the investment of time and resources that went into producing th …

Hi all, Thanks to Neil, I've discovered that Biomart is not just a HTML front-end but it can also be invoked as a web service. So, I played with java and the following webservice: …

Is there a package in R where I can load in a whole genome, and then say e.g. get.gene.sequence (input_genome, "gene_symbol"), or another tool that you'd use for this job?

What do you recommend as the most appropriate site to advertise (or look for) bioinformatics related job openings.

Is there any tool that will tell me how different/similar two chip-seq peak sets are in two different parts of the genome? For example, if I have a ~10Kb region in the genome with …

On this page of the software carpentry manual you can find a brief introduction to different software development techniques, including agile and sturdy ones. Which of these deve …

I am a Software Engineering student (with decent background in biology) and would like to explore the field of bioinformatics. I am completely new to the field and would like some …

Is it possible for two different Affymetrix probe set IDs to have common annotations to a single gene ? I am looking for the concept behind Affy probe set IDs. Any literature or li …

Greetings everybody, We're planning to build a very powerful computing machine to serve bioinformatics application here at HCFMUSP(check my profile). I know that the common choice …

Can anybody point me to a resource that provides information on functionally redundant genes? I have been pointed towards the use of GOA (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/GOA/) as one approach …

What podcasts are the bioinformaticians here listening to that tie in with their work? The most relevant podcast that I know of (the currently even more irregular than normal) C …

To clarify, I am a biochemist, trained in molecular evolution since undergrad and I changed my particular field of work to large scale phylogenetic analysis in the grad school. S …