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IWPLS 2009: The Sanger Mouse Resources Portal - a Testbed for Collaborative Data Integration

Last week I enjoyed some time up in Edinburgh for the International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences (IWPLS ‘09), hosted at the e-Science Institute. It was a good workshop - there were good presentations, lively debates, and good social … Continue reading

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My First Gem: Biomart

A lot of my work these days involves building and querying biomart datasets. Interacting with the webservices (for queries) is pretty simple, you just have to post a piece of xml at the right url, but I found myself reusing … Continue reading

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