The brainhack meetings are collaborative workshops designed for the open neuroscience community, as recently introduced in Craddock et al. (GigaScience 2016 5:16). This document is a step-by-step g...
Read ItWell, I have been digging around a lot into Nanopore sequencing recently. This started as preparation for a lecture I gave at the Bodega Applied Phylogenetics course a few weeks ago on “The Evoluti...
Read ItMountain gorillas have been isolated from eastern lowland gorillas for about 400,000 years. These two subspecies separated from their western counterpart around 2 million years ago.
Read ItEver heard of the nursery rhyme “What are Little Boys Made Of?”? There was a time when it was the go-to explanation parents could give their inquisitive children when asked the awkward question ...
Read ItWhy is it that fish have gills and marine mammals do not? How can some whales hold their breath for 90 minutes yet a human can only manage a measly 2 minutes? A recent paper published by Yim et ...
Read ItThe fish swimming in our oceans are more complex and diverse than many would assume. They are the first true vertebrates, but have subsequently divided into many different groups, with the first...
Read ItA study looking at the genetics of two related crow subspecies provides a snapshot of speciation in action - one of the most interesting processes in biology by which new species arise.
Read ItA study published by Nature in 2014 linked genetics to ecology to find the answer to an old puzzle. Until then researchers across the world were not sure of what determined the genetic diversity...
Read ItMendelian randomisation is a technique which, fuelled by the results of GWA studies, can be used to determine causal relationships between intermediate phenotypes such as metabolite levels and outc...
Read ItIt is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the distribution of these effect sizes, altho...
Read ItHevea brasiliensis, the largest commercial source of natural rubber, is known to be invaded by multiple fungal pathogens, affecting the global rubber production resulting in severe economic losses....
Read ItBy Benedikt Rauscher, Benjamen White – 12/07/2015. To encourage the use of BioJavaScript (BioJS) visualisations in Galaxy we decided to create this simple step by step guide on how to use @MrGreeni...
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