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The Bioinformatics Knowledgeblog is a series of tutorial material covering a broad selection of topics in bioinformatics.

You can learn more about the Knowledgeblog infrastructure, funding and rationale on our main site.

Articles from launch day

Tutorials

• Publishing information in the Linked Open Data cloud by Mikel Egana Aranguren
• Microbase Responder Tutorial by Keith Flanagan
• Using standardized bioinformatics formats in Taverna workflows for integrating biological data by Peter Li
• The Ondex data integration back-end -- Episode 1: The Ondex philosophy by Jochen Weile
• Making use of JSON - a primer for small-time scripters by Tim Booth
• Determining the Effect of Genomic Variants Using the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor by Bert Overduin
• Using R: a guide for complete beginners by Alastair Kerr
• Differential Producibility Analysis (DPA) of transcriptomic data to help understand metabolic status of a cell or microorganism by Bhushan Bonde
• Accessing Ensembl using Ruby - the Core database by Jan Aerts
• Kinetic modelling of metabolic pathways by Natalie Stanford, Kieran Smallbone
• Volcano plots of microarray data by Colin Gillespie
• Accessing Ensembl using Ruby by Jan Aerts
• Gene Set Enrichment Analysis by Simon Cockell
• Downstream functional analysis of an 'omics experiment using freely available tools by Simon Cockell
• Analysing microarray data in BioConductor: figures and code by Daniel Swan
• Analysing microarray data in BioConductor by Daniel Swan

Software Comparisons

• A Survey of Metabolic Reconstruction Tools for Metagenomic Datasets by Matt Collison
• Desktop Sequence Analysis: software review by Alastair Kerr