The OpenHelix Blog

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment…

• Feedback due by May 25th: Request for Comments on Issues of Privacy and Access With Regard to Human Genome Sequence Data HT: GenomeWeb reporter [Jennifer]
• RT @raunakms: #PLoS Computational Biology Meets #Wikipedia http://t.co/LZ2SkvBs #Bioinformatics #genomics [Mary]
• Interesting ACMG report on epigenetics and maternal nutrition, from GenomeWeb: BCM Researcher Describes Search for Epigenetic Factors, Environmental Regulators at ACMG [Jennifer]
• RT @genetics_blog: GUI for methylation array analysis… Not sure “MethLAB” is the best choice for a name: http://t.co/uVp86dvx #bioinformatics [Mary]
• If you’ve got access to Science, there are two interesting articles on the hygiene hypothesis: the research article “Microbial Exposure During Early Life Has Persistent Effects on Natural Killer T Cell Function“, and the perspective “Gut Microbes Keep Rare Immune Cells in Line “. [Jennifer]
• This is mostly a note to me to read this later, and check the damn variants I got from my eczema family: RT @NicholasMMurphy: Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis. http://t.co/IcUfoxVG #GWAS [Mary]
• Cute, but certainly only a fraction of tools out there: RT @spitshine: RT @alexbateman1: Very neat Periodic table of Bioinformatics from @eaglegen http://t.co/w0MvWIbu Shame its missing Pf [Mary]
• RT @cupton1: iPhylo: Browsing TreeBASE using a genome browser-like interface | @scoopit http://t.co/WrGlaa1F [Mary]
• RT @cupton1: #TF #transcription Genome Biology | The Transcription Factor Encyclopedia | @scoopit http://t.co/8eeSLA9h [Mary]