A new article in Slate describes a case of non-paternity unearthed as a result of a 23andme scan. Who’s Your Daddy? The perils of personal genomics. By Daniel Engber I expect a bit of chatter from the genoscenti. I’ll collect responses below if I see them. I agree that the actual studies of non-paternity show [...]
I didn’t know that this film was even in the works. I know there’s controversy over the patents, but you have to acknowledge that the underlying science was really important. And I’m rather pleased to see a woman scientist in film. Looking forward to seeing it somewhere. Here’s the film website: http://decodingannieparker.com/ ++++++++++++++++ Hat tip [...]
There are a lot of cancer database resources out there. Most of the ones we’ve focused on have been the data repository types. TCGA, ICGC, CaBIG, COSMIC, Cancer Genome Workbench, UCSC Cancer Genomic Browser, and of course big repositories like GEO. Researchers will need these sources of data to locate key alterations in cancer cells [...]
For DNADay, you can listen to an interview that puts the last 10 years in perspective. There are other details and links available from the NHGRI’s page about HGP 10. The Genomics Landscape a Decade After the Human Genome Project
In our workshops around the world on the UCSC Genome Browser, we talk at the very beginning about the framework for the organization of the data in the graphical representation. We describe that the reference genome–the official released genome–for a species provides the genome coordinates, or positions, that allows the rest of the data to [...]
There have been a number of heated discussions about genetic privacy recently. Lately the discussion of the Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) genome paper erupted into wide-ranging awareness of some of the issues and complexities around genome data and family relationships. The paper by Yaniv Erlich’s team about re-identification of study participants using genealogy site details also [...]
So a bit of drama erupted recently over a story at Vice (yes, I know). I found out about it from this tweet: I Gave My DNA to a Company in China so They Can Manufacture Genius Babies – Motherboard (bl… bit.ly/YxzsoP #biotech #genomics — Bioinsilico (@bio_insilico) 15. März 2013 Sigh. And then a local [...]
BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions and issues. We are members of the community and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those items or discussions here [...]
This week’s video tip of the week introduces you to Enzyme Portal, an interface to explore data about these important proteins, from the EBI. In the video, Jenny Cham–one of the authors of the paper below–takes you through the main features of their newly designed resource. I learned about the new effort from this blog [...]
I have good news and I have bad news. The good news: seems there is wide awareness of this large genomic research project. The bad news: well, read the highlighted part. From The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, by Al Gore. This piece was on page 214 in my copy. For more on the [...]
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