Singling out my favorite amongst the 174 biological information resources in the current database issue of Nucleic Acids Research is easily achieved: String, a protein-protein interaction database primarily developed in the group of Peer Bork at the EMBL was updated to version 7, introducing many small and a few major improvements and should finally be covered here.
(more…)
The tiny, neat Firefox extension called Serchilo deserves more than a del.icio.us entry. It is useful to have Crtl-k to get to the beloved search box but I don’t always want to search in Google and selecting a different search engine was surprisingly inconvenient. After the installation of the Serchilo plugin, the whole procedure is shortened to supply a keyword (’g’ in the case of Google) to the query to address the server in question. 200 different search engines were already configured, including Pubmed; I just added HubMed, which worked painlessly too. Serchilo can take more than just single arguments and therefore ‘dbt Hamburg, Berlin, 7:00, 12.4′ yields sensible answers. Useful!