On-line Genome Browser

Skiron writes "I stumbled on this quite excellent project after reading an article on the BBC news site (who, for some reason never include a link and leave the reader to go ogle for it. 'The Ensembl Genome Browser - Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on metazoan genomes. Ensembl is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.' A sort of DNA Wiki!"

Comments

Welcome to 1998

[QuantumG]

I wonder what other sites are considered "news" because the geeks who read the queue don't happen to know anything about the field that the site supports.

Usability insightful

[tod_miller]

One thing that makes this stand out, aside from all those mb's of paintless data (to my eyes!) on the screen, is that they have done a suprisingly good job at usability.

I was away in seconds, without even knowing what the hell I was doing I was finding out all sorts of unuseful things!

Usually I would expect such a scintific based project to have a page like this:

Hello and welcome:

2004-10-11-000001.tar.gz MD5 = ...

Of course, this brings to mind, is this data available in some open format we can all d/l and run scripts on to try and find a buffer overflow in the human genome (that sounded worryingly plausible since many tools are being used now to find such cases in binay and source code).

Hack the humans!

Hacker talk in 3045:

0010101110: Oh man, I totally r00t3d n pwn3d her genome, n0w everytime her heart rate goes over 50bps she will be so h0rny for meh.

842984A228BE98: D00d, g1v me h3r bioIP soz I can /GET some 0f th4ht!!

Yoda: Fsk that dude, linux installed and detecting her io ports now, mmmm ys indeed I have.

Forgive my poor leet speak.

The BBC always provide links

[Andy_R]

The submitter wouldn't need to 'ogle' for links if they paid attention to the BBC Article (which I had to google for since the article mised out the link).

It clearly says "use web tools such as the Ensembl Genome Browser at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, to mine the data." and on the right, under the heading "Related internet links" there is a link to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute who run the Ensembl Genome browser, as well as 3 other relevant links.

What the BBC site does not do is put inline links to other non BBC sites, they are always on the right, with a little disclaimer that " The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites".