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Bioinformatics: Training the Trainers
My apologies for the GARNet radio silence over the last couple of weeks – we’ve been busy helping with PlantSci 2013 preparations as well as working on our own 2013 meetings (announcement of our...
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Bioinformatics: Training the Trainers
My apologies for the GARNet radio silence over the last couple of weeks – we’ve been busy helping with PlantSci 2013 preparations as well as working on our own 2013 meetings (announcement of our...
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Bioinformatics and Data Analysis Training for Plant Scientists
Large datasets are now the norm in modern biology. Modelling is progressing from the protein and molecular interaction level to tissue, organ, and whole-plant scales; while everything from genomics...
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Mathematics in the Plant Sciences
After the ELIXIR/GOBLET workshop before Easter, I headed to Nottingham for another workshop, this time as an onlooker. In a brilliantly eccentric set-up there were actually two parallel workshops, and...
View ArticlePlant synthetic biology round-up
Well, I’ve just about recovered from this week’s GARNet meeting, An Introduction to Opportunities in Plant Synthetic Biology. It was a great two days. For a report of the meeting through the medium of...
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Two GARNet Events
Image by Centimedia.org for GARNet We have some GARNet news to share! First of all, we are pleased to finally open registration for the hands-on iPlant training workshop ‘Data Mining with iPlant‘....
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Register now for GARNet’s 2014 events
We have been busy arranging two great events for 2014! Registration for both Software Carpentry for Plant Scientists (9-10 April) and Arabidopsis: The Ongoing Green Revolution (9-10 September) is now...
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GEO for plant scientists: How to find Arabidopsis microarray data
Submission of gene expression data to the Gene Expression Omnibus is now a requirement of publication in most journals, so it is an extremely valuable resource. It is also extremely big, and full of...
View ArticleGEO for plant scientists: Sharing data
There is currently no microarray service provider in the UK that uploads your plant science microarray data to GEO on your behalf, but publication requires your data to be shared. The most common...
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Arabidopsis Information Portal at PAGXXIII
Last Monday the Arabidopsis community gathered for the Arabidopsis Information Portal workshop at PAG XXIII. The Arabidopsis Informatics Portal (AIP) was funded by NSF and BBSRC to move beyond the...
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Multi-scale Biology Meeting.
What is Multi-scale Biology? That was the overriding question that occupied attendees of the inaugural meeting of the Multi-scale Biology Network, held at the University of Nottingham on June 1st 2015....
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Genome Resequencing for Mutant Identification
As most biologists will be aware, the cost of DNA sequencing has been falling well in advance of the costs predicted by Moores law (although argued by Neil Hall a few years ago, this might not have...
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COPO 2015 Meeting
COPO has big plans…. and if it is to be truly successful and benefit the plant community there needs to be a cultural change! That’s the simple if revolutionary message that came out of the recent COPO...
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Arabidopsis Research Roundup: July 11th
A couple of weeks since the last update as it’s been quiet for UK Arabidopsis Research publications. However we now see a variety of publications that address some important questions in different...
View ArticleArabidopsis Research Roundup: Sept 11th
After a slow couple of weeks the Arabidopsis Research Roundup returns with some high impact publications. None more so than the widely reported study from the University of York that highlights...
View ArticleArabidopsis Research Roundup: November 25th
This weeks Arabidopsis Research Roundup contains four papers each with a different focus. Firstly is a large-scale investigation that attempts to define the transcriptional changes that occur in...
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Arabidopsis Research Roundup: January 22nd 2016
A mixed selection of research in this UK Arabidopsis Roundup. Firstly a study from Stefan Kepinski and Mark Estelle that adds another layer of understanding to the regulation of the auxin response....
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Arabidopsis Research Roundup: January 29th
This weeks Arabidopsis Research Roundup features a paper from David Baulcombe and Joe Ecker that further deciphers mechanisms of RNA silencing and is kindly discussed by postdoc Mat Lewsey in a short...
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UKPPN Root Phenotyping Workshop: April 2016
The UK Plant Phenotyping Network is a BBSRC sponsored network that has supported meetings and workshops since 2012. A representative from GARNet sits on the UKPPN committee so it was a pleasure to...
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Arabidopsis Research Roundup: June 9th
This edition of the Arabidopsis Research Roundup pleasingly includes four Open Access articles. Firstly Jose Gutierrez-Marcos leads an investigation into stress-induced memory, secondly Richard Morris...
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