Last year I had the opportunity to give a workshop in Ifrane Morocco (UCSC Genome and Table browsers, Galaxy) at Al Akhawayn University. This year, Mary and I returned for a longer 3-day workshop at University Hassan II in Mohammadia. OpenHelix was a co-sponsor of the workshop (donating our time, materials and expertise). The workshop [...]
Just wanted to post a reminder about this–there are a few spots left but you have to sign up: Free Webinar on ENCODE data in the UCSC Genome Browser Here’s a quick link to the registration page: www.openhelix.com/cgi/webinars.cgi
Over the long holiday weekend I noticed an interesting item in my twitter feed. A number of people were pointing to the post entitled: My Genome Via E-mail by David Ewing Duncan. Some of you may be familiar with David’s writing and his big project called “Experimental Man“. He has been exploring all sorts of [...]
So it appears that the decision is now out on the case against Myriad’s patents on the BRCA diagnostic testing. I haven’t read the decision yet, I saw a great stream of tidbits coming from @genomicslawyer, Dan Vorhaus. Check out the whole thing, starting around here and working upwards: @genomicslawyer: $MYGN opinion is out: bit.ly/qe3bZm [...]
The latest genome to be completed is the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber). Now, could there be a cooler (if ugly) mammal on the planet? It’s one of only two truly eusocial mammals in the world, it lives up to 28 long years (my daughter’s rat, no relation, lived only 3 years) and is surprisingly [...]
I’m packing for my trip to the NIH to do some workshops, but wanted to make sure our regular readers catch this–the NAR web server issue is out. Always a nice look at some tools that may be new (or new to you) and updates to existing ones. Hat tip to Francis Ouellette for all [...]
Saw this notice via twitter: RT @gnshealthcare: Let’s welcome the #CDC blog on #genomics which will cover genomic research, evaluation, and programs! http://bit.ly/jC1lgK Very cool–but the site is like molasses for me right now for some reason. Maybe it’s a problem local to me, you can check it out. What I can see is limited [...]
1,000 dollars to sequence the entire 3 billion ‘basepair’ long human genome is the holy grail. Last year, on this blog, I predicted that we’d reach that goal ‘within a year’. Well, it’s been a year and we aren’t there. I did hedge a bit in the comments later, but the main point was that [...]
Otto West: Apes don’t read philosophy. Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. –A Fish Called Wanda Some of you remember that last year we were treated to a strange case of DNA denialism that was making the rounds of the foodie community. Michael Pollan was all excited and aerated about it [...]
So my TSO friends, I call this meeting to order…. I was watching my “genome” column twitter feed the other day, and I’ve been seeing more things that make me giggle. Jesus’ genome, various intelligent design detritus, space alien DNA and some just plain silliness–including Jonathan Latham’s whack-a-mole argument once again (I’ll have more on [...]
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