PCD Video Tutorials

Please check out the tutorial videos for our databases on the MainLab YouTube channel.  The searches and tools use the same framework across all of our databases.

• Searches

  • How to search markers
  • How to search QTL and MTL
  • How to search genetic maps
  • How to search genes and transcripts
  • How to use the Ortholog/Paralog Search
  • Searching and viewing GWAS data
  • How to search traits and see associated data

• Tools

  • How to use MapViewer
  • How to use Synteny Viewer
  • How to use the BLAST tool
  • How to overlay Omics data in PathwayCyc
  • How to use the Expression Heatmap Tool

• Advanced queries and data retrieval

  • How to download markers from map region
  • How to view genomes linked to genetic maps
  • How to go from BLAST to mRNA to JBrowse
  • How to go from trait to GWAS to gene to ortholog
  • How to find a marker associated with a trait
  • ​How to download protein sequences
  • How to view correspondences between genomes and genetic maps

Or you can watch the entire playlist below.