Wouldn't it be great if there was some magical institution which mapped out the developmental expression of mouse genes, and then made it freely available on the internet? And wouldn't it be cool if all that data was compiled in an easily-searchable database that was being constantly updated with new genes and new experimental data?
Well, dream no more, because the folks at Department of Molecular Embryology at the Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Endocrinology have done just that by creating GenePaint. If there was a "You Might Be a BioDork If..." list, I think up there on the list would be "You are in awe of GenePaint and spend almost as much time there as on Wikipedia." Really folks, this is cool. Check out this quick guide to GenePaint to see what all the fuss is about.
There are also mouse embryo maps and brain maps, as icing on the big nerdcake.
Sox2 Expression at E 14.5
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Funny, we just had a guest lecture in our Data mining course about how to find gene associations in this kind of image.
There's also the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas, which has similar data: http://genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/
Posted by: Frank D. | January 29, 2008 10:06 AM
Damn you! Although I really don't know enough about genetics to understand most of it or find it useful in any way I can't help but be fascinated by the pictures. I REALLY have to write a thesis.
Posted by: badchemist | January 29, 2008 12:47 PM
There are also mouse embryo maps and brain maps, as icing on the big nerdcake.
Sounds like a real cool development! It might develop into a required website for school children interested in neuroscience in the future?
Dave Briggs :~)
Posted by: Dave Briggs | January 29, 2008 5:31 PM