Simon Twigger @ MCW

bioinformatics and related stuff

Posts Tagged ‘scivee’

Introduction to Ontologies videos released

By Simon • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: News, Screencasts

As part of our grant with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology we are producing a number of educational videos/screencasts to help introduce ontologies to the broader scientific community. The basic idea behind these videos is that ontologies are really powerful but most of our wet lab colleagues are put off by the complexity and [...]



PGA Sleeping Beauty Podcast

By Simon • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Bioinformatics, News, Screencasts

Aron Geurts, Howard Jacob and I just release a quick interview/videocast via SciVee describing the sleeping beauty knockout process for the rat. In the video Howard talks a little about the PGA and what it offers and then Aron goes into more detail on the sleeping beauty knockout process and how he plans to use [...]



Interview with Computational Biologist and SciVee Cofounder Phil Bourne

By Simon • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Bioinformatics

Phil Bourne has uploaded a video of an interview he and I did back in January as part of our bioinformatics seminar series here at the Medical College. You can find the video on SciVee.tv, or watch it below. Phil describes his background and experiences with scientific publishing and how he’s trying to push the [...]



Google Notebook and Reader: two useful tools for biomedical scientists

By Simon • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: Bioinformatics, Screencasts, Tutorials

Following on from the presentation a few days ago I’ve created a quick screencast on SciVee showing how to use Google’s Notebook and Reader to manage information online. I use the example of SATB1, a gene that was recently published in Nature as being a ‘master regulator’ involved in the progression of breast cancer. When [...]



SciVee video on the BioBar toolbar for Firefox

By Simon • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Bioinformatics, Screencasts, Tutorials

I’ve just recorded a quick screencast on how to install and use the BioBar toolbar for Firefox. This is a nice addition to the browser if you search any of the various online sequence/genome databases on a regular basis. You can download the BioBar here: http://biobar.mozdev.org and as you can see in the video its a quick [...]