Friday SNPpets

13 April, 2012 (09:03) | SNPpets | By: Mary

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…

Request for Comments on Issues of Privacy and Access With Regard to Human Genome Sequence Data - from the Health and Human Services Department, comments due by May 25th, 2012 [Jennifer]
Snorf. RT @dgmacarthur: Abstract submission open for #ASHG12! Because you totally know what your results will be like in November: http://t.co/RSOkwBA2 [Mary]
RT @iddux: Biocuration 2012: The Blog Post. http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2012/04/06/biocuration-2012/ #isb2012 [Mary]
RT @OpenHelix: Did I just hear collective “sigh” from nomenclature committees? 10 Genes Named After Science Fiction and Fantasy Icons http://t.co/XR79UeYV [Mary]
ha ha ha ha ha! RT @mattVDiLeo: While discussing the new cannabis genome sequence today, a coworker asked whether it was downloadable in RASTA format…. #bioinformatics [Mary]
UNESCO Issues Open Access Policy Guidelines “to demystify the concept of Open Access … and to provide concrete steps [for] putting relevant policies in place.” UNESCO hopes the guidelines will assist in creating an “enabling policy environment for [open access].” HT AAAS Policy Alert [Jennifer]
The 2012 North Carolina Science Festival begins today & runs through April 29th. To find events in your area (of NC), check out the schedule here. You may remember that in my ScienceOnline2012 report, I mentioned the opening of the new wing of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the Nature Research Center, will have a grand opening event today & tomorrow, and officially open April 20th. This is just one of the NC Science Festival events going on. [Jennifer]
Man, the twitters cracked me up this week: RT @MarcAbrahams: RT @ivanoransky: Hey @MarcAbrahams, this is Arnold’s IgNobel abstract RT @mistersugar: Says Frances Arnold: “Genome: great story. hard to write” #TEDMED [Mary]