Friday SNPpets

20 April, 2012 (09:10) | 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…

Special note: Happy DNA Day! There are all sorts of activities around the ‘tubz on this, check out the #DNADay twitter tag or check out DNA Day central at NHGRI.

ROFL!! RT @pjacock: Nature efforts: Because you tried really hard for a really long time RT @iddux I could publish there http://t.co/Sg8bqHFV MT @leonidkruglyak [Mary]
Interested to read this paper on a tool for searching for Electronic Health Record (EHR) information & maybe kick some tires “CDAPubMed: a browser extension to retrieve EHR-based biomedical literature.” The CDAPubMed site is here, but looks to still be under development. [Jennifer]
RT @ypriverol: Bioinformatics as a driver, not a passenger!!! http://t.co/FZisrB2a [Mary]
RT @mattVDiLeo: RT @GenBioStats: De novo #genome #assembly: what every biologist should know http://t.co/MFVVPuoP [Mary]
Hmm, maybe fruit for lunch? “Generation and analysis of blueberry transcriptome sequences from leaves, developing fruit, and flower buds from cold acclimation through deacclimation” (another BMC articleon my reading list) [Jennifer]
Disturbing ad: Via Ian Bosdet on G+: Embryo gender-selection services advertised in community newspaper…. [Mary]
I know I’m gonna need to remember this, people ask me all the time: RT @pfanderson: “We are planning to update the human reference assembly to GRCh38 in the summer of 2013.” http://t.co/XMr752uX Comments welcomed [Mary]
Did ya know? I’m updating our PubMed tutorial & yesterday ran into PubMed’s list of topic-specific searches, which includes a Healthy People 2020 search; Health Disparities, Health Literacy, History of Medicine and Space Life Sciences searches, and lots more. You can see the full directory of Topic-Specific PubMed Queries here. [Jennifer]
RT @bffo: RT @michaelhoffman: The ENCODE Project now has an official Twitter account: @ENCODE_NIH [Mary]
From an AAAS PolicyAlert, the FDA has recently released livestock antibiotic guidelines: “Guidance for Industry on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals” [Jennifer]