2/13/2011

Movies

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Role models : great potential, but not fully developed. Gulliver's travels : Jack Black bang-on comedy. Not enough Amanda Peet in the mo...
11/15/2010

EMBL Postdoc retreat 2010 -- some notes

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The EMBL Postdoc Retreat 2010 took place in Lubeck. Here are some notes and keywords for some of the seminars: Timothy Sauders, EMBL-Heidelb...
9/05/2010

Alcohol consumption in Europe

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BBC News - Alcohol consumption 'continues to fall' 2008 alcohol consumption in Europe (litres per head) * Czech Republic - 12.3 ...
7/22/2010

Lab life and ecology

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Prof-like Substance: Job data in ecology and evolution fields Euphemisms called “labs” coexist in structured universal aggregations where th...
4/24/2010

Pay per view, football and statistics

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A very interesting web application that studies the score distributions for different football leagues: http://understandinguncertainty.org/...
4/13/2010

Financial bonuses

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Long time, no post. Here is a financial one: Vince Cable (LibDem UK) on bank bonuses. Many many people would subscribe to these rules. That ...
3/26/2010

Google Summer of Code 2010: interesting phyloinformatics projects

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Google_Summer_of_Code_2010 – GenMAPP IDEA 12: Phylogenetic Tree plugin ¶ Most of the software for visualization of phylogenetic tree is comm...
3/02/2010

Brain evolution @ news.bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - Did the discovery of cooking make us human? Cooking is something we all take for granted but a new theory suggests that if we had...
2/05/2010

Paul Krugman on Spanish finances

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The Spanish Tragedy - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com OECD Government debt as % of GDP As Europe is roiled by sovereign debt fears, i...
2/01/2010

UK is not Greece -- Peston's Picks

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BBC - Peston's Picks: Tories withdraw support from the gilt market To be clear, there is no direct read-across (to use the dreadful busi...
1/17/2010

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Pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire Definition | Definition of Pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire at Dictionary.com Idiom...
12/15/2009

I knew this could be done!!!

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For Bicyclists Needing a Boost, This Wheel May Help - NYTimes.com PD: I want one!
9/27/2009

Paul Krugman explains cap-and-trade

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The textbook economics of cap-and-trade - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com I realized, after the last post , that it might be useful to w...
8/06/2009

Caption competition

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BBC - Magazine Monitor: Caption Competition Caption Competition 12. At 12:31pm on 06 Aug 2009 , LaurenceLane wrote: The PGA have been urg...
7/02/2009

What a NGS IT person should be skilled in

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PLoS Computational Biology: Managing and Analyzing Next-Generation Sequence Data The skills necessary within the Facility include the follow...
6/24/2009

Lamprey Genome rearrangements

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DNA Jettisoned From Lamprey Genome During Development | GenomeWeb Daily News | Sequencing | GenomeWeb Amemiya and his co-workers became susp...
6/12/2009

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Life After GWAS: For Some Researchers, Focus Shifts to Rare Variants, CNVs | GenomeWeb Daily News | Sequencing | GenomeWeb Over the last sev...
5/26/2009

Ubuntu trick -- how to reset evolution email

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gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/evolution
5/21/2009

Gene by gene turns genome-by-genome

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This is a good example of the kind of paper we are probably going to see more and more often in the future: Gene discovery using massively p...
5/11/2009

Anolis carolinensis: First reptile in Ensembl -- Amonida Sadissa

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Very few anolis proteins and cDNAs, many more ESTs. Used Uniprot PE Evidence ranking to generate transcript models with genewise Different p...
5/07/2009

FC Barcelona 1991 and 2009 -- find the similarities

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http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=6OHYAMG5RTk (jump to 1:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=1-4NpWO4ObU The guy who jumps to celebrate with ...
5/05/2009

Drug combinations, gene combinations and cancer -- Sven Nelander

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First seminar of the Systems Biology series at the EBI. This series starts with a strong focus on the modeling side of Systems Biology, but ...
5/01/2009

NCBI SRA blastn service

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Never easier before to check your sequence against the NCBI Short Read Archive database: NCBI SRA BLAST First thoughts: Transcriptome covera...

A customized and versatile high-density genotyping array for the mouse -- Gary Churchill, The Jackson Laboratory, USA

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Microarray based genotyping is an inexpensive and powerful tool to characterize genetic variation. High-density genotyping microarrays are c...
4/30/2009

RNAseq in the worm -- Gary Williams

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Illumina Short-read transcriptome data has the potential to help solve many problems with curating gene models and the genomic sequence in C...
4/28/2009

Peston on makein banks safe

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BBC - Peston's Picks: Making banks safe For what it's worth, there are two reasons why it might make sense to force our biggest and ...

The Molecules and Mechanisms of Instinctive Behaviour in Mammals -- Darren Logan, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla USA

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Abstract Social or behavioural disorders affect a quarter of individuals at some time during their lives however the molecules and mechanism...
4/27/2009

Giving functional genomics a REST -- Alex Bruce

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http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Transcript/ProteinSummary?db=core;g=ENSG00000084093;r=4:57468799-57493097;t=ENST00000309042 interesting ...
4/24/2009

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PLoS Computational Biology: Polymorphism Data Can Reveal the Origin of Species Abundance Statistics Polymorphism Data Can Reveal the Origin ...
4/23/2009

Saint George was an ecocriminal

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Here are different images of Saint George caught in the act of killing an endangered species, a mythical dragon, that has been extinct since...

Phenotype data in Ensembl -- Fiona Cunningham

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European Genotype Archive : Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) like WTCCC data and others. Only public information is public available u...

Ensembl Quality Checking -- Michael Schuster

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All Ensembl gene predictions for all vertebrate species are based on experimental evidence: UniprotKB/Swiss-Prot NCBI RefSeq proteins and mR...
4/14/2009

Alzheimer -- BBC

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BBC NEWS | Health | Drug offers hope on Alzheimer's A new drug which shows promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease has be...
4/08/2009

Paul Preston on Breaking up banks

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The issue here is how to handle financial globalization: bigger UK banks are good to make them well-positioned internationally, which one co...
4/07/2009

EnsemblCompara "Back to the future": using phylogenetic information to help gene annotation

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Here is an example success story of using phylogenetic information to improve human gene annotation. What do you see wrong in this EnsemblCo...

Promoting Open Source Bioinformatics

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Interesting to see all the buzz that the Benjamin Franklin Award has generated in the blogosphere, twittersphere, facebooksphere and any of...
4/06/2009

Genomes to come: wallaby

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Tammar Wallaby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Tammar Wallaby ( Macropus eugenii ), also known as the Dama Wallaby or Darma Wallaby...
4/02/2009

Quarterly Activity Report -- Hinxton Sequence Forum Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

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A quarterly activity report for the different activities that take place under what can be considered "sequence" at the WTGC in H...
3/31/2009

ape

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dechronization: Hey R Users! Time to Update ape The ape package written by Emmanuel Paradis is the foundation for phylogenetic analyses in R...
3/27/2009

Hooray for those 6 brave souls! :-)

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When every student has a laptop, why run computer labs? - Ars Technica According to the school's Information Technology & Communicat...
3/26/2009

Jalview Google Summer of Code 2009

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(Shameless plug of the day) There is an opportunity for students to propose a Jalview related software development project as part of the Go...
3/24/2009

Sugarcane sugar content

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Sugarcane genes associated with sucrose content. [BMC Genomics. 2009] - PubMed Result Sugarcane genes associated with sucrose content. Papin...
3/23/2009

Laura Clarke - 1000 Genomes project

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Depositing every week same amount of data as all was in public dbs before (past ~20-30 years). Data coordination (EBI Paul Flicek, Laura+Zam...
3/21/2009

Browse the NCBI Short Read Archive by taxonomy

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Here is the link.
3/20/2009

Next Generation community resources for Next Generation Sequencing

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I've been looking at SEQanswers lately to try and discern where is people drawing the "Here be dragons" of their research. A ...

Use copy+paste

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My surname is Vilella which is kind of the diminutive of Vila, or Ville, or littletown. This last 7 days I've had a badge and stickers g...