CircosVCF is a web based visualisation tool of genome-wide variant data described in VCF files using circos plots. The provided visualisation […]
Category: Genomics
Personal Genomics Open Access Datasets Even More European-Biased Than Scientific Literature?
Blog post originally published for Front Line Genomics. A recent article published in Nature on October 13th 2016 [1] indicated […]
#BioDataWorld Pre-Competitive Collaboration & Data Sharing
I have the pleasure to moderate next week a round table at the prestigious BioData World Congress, happening at Hinxton, […]
Article “Crowdsourced Analysis of Family Genome” Among BMC Genomics Most Influential Articles for 2015
I am pleased that our article “Crowdsourced direct-to-consumer genomic analysis of a family quartet” is the second most influential article in […]
Stop Calling Genes ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’!
I find it worrying that in The Economist article “A Parthian shot” (February 13th) some genes inherited from Neanderthals are […]
It’s Official, “Corpasome” Is Now Part Of The Scientific Literature
Risking being called ‘Narcissome’ (as Michael Snyder’s work or Snyderome has been called), we not only have written about the Corpasome, […]
A Glimpse Of What My Fecal DNA Contains
After my initial call for crowdsourcing the analysis of my personal fecal DNA, I had some results sent back via […]
How Facebook Helped Me Discover I’m A Red Hair Gene Carrier
Is it weird for a Spaniard to have red hair? The typical stereotype for a Mediterranean person is brown-skinned, not […]
Progress With Family Genome Analysis
In this video I summarize some of the most interesting findings that we have reported in a recent paper in […]
The Problem With ENCODE
My biggest worry with the ENCODE publication frenzy and press releases is that there is a lot of hype in what it […]