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Just found this sign which cracked me up: Via Sharon Astyk who linked to Buzzfeed’s best 100 signs.

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]

We are constantly on the look out for databases and resources. It’s a full time job. Our current search space includes about 500 databases and genomics resources. We have a masterlist of over 3,000 such genomics/biological, databases, but we’ve culled them to the top used and useful ones for the search. That’s not to say [...]

I got an email from Tadashi Imanishi about the upcoming Biocuration meeting occurring in Japan and I wanted to pass the news on. The conference details have changed slightly in that it will be occurring October 11th-14th in Tokyo, rather than Oct. 6-9th in Chiba: The new dates and place for the Biocuration 2010 meeting [...]

Provided without further comment…. For the full size version go to the source:  http://xkcd.com/701/

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]

Lots of people have already written lots of great posts about the ScienceOnline2010 unconference already – you can see a list of them from this post of Bora’s (Thanks, Bora, for collecting these!), with lots of good analysis and observation (including these: ).  I know I am a bit slow, but I just can’t let [...]

All I Want for Christmas Is a Personal Genome Sequence.   If that seems like too much to ask from Santa, then I just want to say up front that I am not asking for my own genome sequence, only my husband’s. Not more that 7 or 8 years ago this type of “present” would have [...]

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]

Welcome to the “What’s Your Problem?” (WYP) open thread. The purpose of this entry is to allow the community to ask questions on the use of genomics resources. Think of us as a virtual help desk. If you have a question about how to access a certain kind of data, or how to use a [...]