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New release: MyGene.info Python client updated to v3.0.0
A few weeks ago, we released MyGene.info v3 API, which brings changes to exon field data structure and added accession version numbers to refseq and accession fields, along with some other back-compatible changes.
Our Python client mygene module is now updated to use our v3 API as the default.
New release: MyGene.info Python client updated to v3.0.0
Use python for your bioinformatics pipeline and need a simple way to batch annotate genes? Convert or map gene ids? Try our updated python client.
Mark2Cure joins the dazzle4rare campaign
Shining a light on rare disease! Next week, Mark2Cure will be joining HESA online’s #dazzle4rare campaign to help raise awareness for rare diseases. Because many of our Mark2Curators have experienced the impact of a rare disease, we would like to use this opportunity...
BioGPS Spotlight on RGD and RatMine
RatMine is one of several InterMine-based resources available as plugins in BioGPS. Unlike FlyMine and HumanMine (which are run by the InterMine team), RatMine is one of several resources available in the Rat Genome Database (RGD) offered by the Biomedical Informatics...
Open Data should mean CC0, not CC-BY
Several months ago, NIGMS released a RFI on The Need for and Support of Research Resources for the Biomedical Research Community. Our group has quite a bit of experience building information-based research resources (through grants generously awarded by NIGMS). So...
Awesome! An interesting clue has been uncovered in Mark2Cure
By now, you’ve probably heard about the exciting discoveries coming out of the research funded by the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. We love this example of how the community came together to push science forward, and have another example we’d like to share. This example...
BioGPS Spotlight on HumanMine
In our last spotlight we covered FlyMine, one of two mines maintained by the InterMine group at Cambridge University. This week’s spotlight is on HumanMine, the second of the two aforementioned mines. Yo Yehudi (developer), and Rachel Lyne (biologist) were kind enough...
New Data Release 201606
Another new data release was just rolled out. Some highlights of this new release include the support of GRCh38/hg38 genome assembly, updated and additional data sources, as well as new data fields added. All changes in this data release are backwards-compatible.
Support variants on GRCh38/hg38 Genome Assembly
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New Data Release 201606
We’ve also added support for variant annotations on GRCh38/hg38 genome assembly. Retrieve up-to-date gene variant annotations quickly and easily.
One mission down, a new one up in Mark2Cure
Over the last two weeks, our amazing contributors completed the galactosemia/glycosylation mission which was derived from concepts that the Mark2Cure community identified from an even earlier mission. In other words, the galactosemia/glycosylation mission was made...