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…

• RT @bffo: good read! RT @GenomeRef: GRC: Updating the Human Reference Assembly, part 1 http://t.co/fnwg6itO #genomics #bioinformatics [Mary]
• From GeneomeWeb: “Janelia Farm’s Newest Addition to HMMER“. You can kick the tires on the new jackhmmr resource, which does an iterative search versus a protein sequence database, here. [Jennifer]
• Bioimage informatics is the new category of submission in the journal Bioinformatics, in recognition of the growing number of papers and data being published in this area. HT Matthew Dublin of GenomeWeb [Jennifer]
• RT @natalieclairoux: RT @GaiaTek: #bioinformatics declining? http://t.co/Vht3YD1F My Pubmed trends disagree (using #rstats ggplot) 1/2 http://t.co/F0vbzUHu [Mary]
• RT @mike_schatz: Solving the genomic jigsaw puzzle http://t.co/nDWWKmen [Mary]
• Another post on big data: Cloud Moves in on Bioscience Plus a new resources from Broad: GenomeSpace-beta  HT:Bio SmartBrief [Jennifer]
• From BioTechniques, interesting article: “NCBI Heads to the Cloud” [Jennifer]
• RT @marinkazitnik: ‘Ome,’ the Sound of the Scientific Universe Expanding http://t.co/Rd8oomRh [Mary]