News & Events
Site updates - First new FB2 datasets now available (14 December 2015)
This month marks the first publication of data from FaceBase 2 projects plus new features for the website.
New data is now available from these projects:
- Developing 3D Craniofacial Morphometry Data and Tools to Transform Dysmorphology (co-PIs: Rich Spritz and Ophir Klein)
- Genomic and Transgenic Resources for Craniofacial Enhancer Studies (PI: Axel Visel)
- Integrated Research of Functional Genomics and Craniofacial Morphogenesis (PI: Yang Chai)
- RNA Dynamics in the Developing mouse Face (co-PIs: Trevor Williams, Joan Hooper and Kenneth Jones)
- Transcriptome Atlases of the Craniofacial Sutures (co-PIs: Ethylin Jabs, Greg Holmes and Harm van Bakel)
This month’s data includes the following experiment types:
- Hard tissue microCT images
- Morphometric analysis
- RNA expression (microarray)
- RNA expression (RNA-seq)
- Soft tissue microCT images
Click here to view all of the new datasets
The Hub is also happy to announce these two new sections of the website.
The Gene Summary content from the legacy site is back. This section allows you to view gene expression drawings of mice by gene and, where available, includes corresponding human data.
We have also added a new page called the Mouse Matrix. This page is a table of available datasets per mouse anatomical feature and age stage. Click on a cell to see a list of links to all related datasets.
The Hub wishes you and yours a safe and happy holiday season. We are looking forward to many more updates to FaceBase offerings in the coming year.
— The FaceBase Hub
Site updates - Homepage Links and Data Browser UI (13 October 2015)
The FaceBase Hub is happy to announce an updated version of the FaceBase website and data services. We are regularly incorporating user feedback on the site and continually working to improve it. Recent changes include:
- New links from the home page directly to specific subsets of the data in order to help you find data of interest;
- Bookmark-able links when searching and browsing that data, which you can share with colleagues or bookmark for later use;
- This also means that when logging in, the current state of your search experience will be preserved during your session;
- The search and browse sidebar is now open/expanded by default on the right hand side of the data browser to simplify navigation over the data;
- Datasets are now annotated with an additional field to identify the Experiment Type of the study;
- And a variety of data cleaning and usability improvements to make the site easier to use.
This is an ongoing process and we will be rolling out further enhancements on a regular basis. We welcome your feedback at help@facebase.org.
— The FaceBase Hub
Legacy site has been deprecated (28 August 2015)
We have now shut down the original FaceBase site at legacy.facebase.org. You can now find the 3D Facial Norms and Cranio GUI pages on this site with FishFace to follow soon. If you are in urgent need of content that is no longer available, please contact us at: help AT facebase.org.
More updates coming so stay tuned!
Best,
FaceBase 2 Hub
Shutting down legacy site on 8/28 (20 August 2015)
The FaceBase Hub is planning to shut down the old FaceBase site at legacy.facebase.org on Friday, August 28th. By that point we will have also migrated the Facial Norms site and some other content.
If you have any concerns about this shutdown, please contact us at: help AT facebase.org.
We are also working on some new updates to this site for the fall including an improved search interface and enhanced 3D anatomical image viewer with support for volumes, 3D meshes, landmarks, and ontology based labeling.
Please sign up for our mailing list to stay informed about new features and datasets.
Best,
FaceBase 2 Hub
New FaceBase2 Site Goes Live (01 July 2015)
As of July 1, 2015, FaceBase is happy to announce the successful transition to our new website!
Note that your logins for the old site will not work on the new site. You must sign up for a new account.
We have focused on a clean, easily navigable design and have spent the most time on the new Data Browser - just click the Filter button and use the filters sidebar to drill down to the data you’re looking for. You can filter by organism, investigator, data type, mouse age stage, mouse mutation, genotype, gene, chromosome and much more.
We are still migrating certain content from the old site - which is still available for a limited time at egacy.facebase.org - as well making further improvements to the usability of the site based on user feedback.
Please use this form to tell us what you think!
We will soon be adding new data from the FaceBase2 spoke projects. To stay on top of new data and other important FaceBase news, please subscribe to our newsletter .
Thank you so much for everyone’s contribution in making this site happen.
Best,
FaceBase 2 Hub