If you’re a user of NextBio Basic, you’re probably aware that NextBio lets you access thousands of gene expression studies from sources such as GEO. NextBio has done the heavy lifting of importing, normalizing, and curating publicly available genomic data so that biologists can ask and answer biological questions completely in silico—even with little computational expertise.
Which makes our recent updates very exciting: We’ve made data from GWAS, CNV studies, and more freely available* through the NextBio Public site. These numbers update on a near-daily basis. Because our curators tag each imported study using a controlled vocabulary and custom disease ontology, you’ll easily be able to perform meta-analyses of multiple studies across different diseases through a simple, web-based interface.
Correlating genomic data from thousands of studies linked to different diseases, compounds, tissues, cells and more is complicated. We’re constantly trying to make the job a little easier, which is why we’ve also given the NextBio Public user interface a major overhaul.
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