Use Public Resources to answer a biological question

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Learning Objectives

• How to access genomic resource via its Python API
• How to access image resource via its Python API
• Relate image data to genomic data

Diabetes related genes expressed in pancreas

This notebook looks at the question Which diabetes related genes are expressed in the pancreas? Tissue and disease can be modified.

Steps:

• Query humanmine.org, an integrated database of Homo sapiens genomic data using the intermine API to find the genes.
• Using the list of found genes, search in the Image Data Resource (IDR) for images linked to the genes, tissue and disease.
• Analyse the images found.

Launch

This notebook uses the environment.yml file.

See Setup.