ClinVar in Mastermind
The latest update to Mastermind has integrated ClinVar, a public database of clinically observed variants and their pathogenicity interpretations by the clinical labs that submitted the variants. This can often serve as a quick jumping off point for deciding to further investigate a given variant based on the evidence provided in Mastermind.
Don’t Miss Variants: Upgrading From the Cited Variants Reference to the Mastermind API
In this blog, chief technology officer Steve Schwartz describes the limitations of the Mastermind Cited Variants Reference (CVR) that affect genomic analyses, and how the integration of Mastermind’s API can help surmount them.
Mastermind Updates: Search Companion
We have just released a major update to Search Companion, our Chrome extension for Mastermind. Key elements of this enhancement include functionality on eight new platforms, a more intuitive interface with deeper data, plus access is now available to all Chrome users, including those without a Mastermind account.
New Diagnostic Tool in Mastermind: Disease-Specific Curated Content
Disease-Specific Curated Content, now available to everyone in the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine, presents comprehensive and expertly curated variant data to provide clinical diagnostic labs with certainty, consistency, and confidence. This blog will guide you through the key benefits of this new offering, including an informative video tutorial.
Mastermind Update: Improved Article Icon Attributes
We often blog about the significant strides we’ve made to organize and make sense of genomic knowledge contained within the primary evidence of the medical literature. And there is certainly a lot to talk about. But we thought it’d be interesting to give insight into how much attention and effort goes into even the smallest …
Navigating CNVs in Mastermind with the New “Stacked Pancake” Plot
Mastermind quickly sorts and prioritizes CNV results with automated, semantic search – but how can this be visualized? This blog will introduce our new “Stacked Pancake” Plot for CNVs, and will explore how it adds even more flexibility to your experience.