Friday SNPpets
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…
- Heh. RT @davidmam: #filmquotebioinformatics The first rule about bioinformatics in grants is that nobody talks about bioinformatics in grants. [Mary]
- RT @widdowquinn: #filmquotebioinformatics ‘Homology!’
‘You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.’ [Mary] - Note–those two film quotes were part of a hilarious meme recently, which was captured in a storify by Casey Bergman: Bioinformatics Film Quotes
- Hey Hopkins folks–do this if you have been wanting to pick up some programming skills: RT @jiffyclub: Help spread the word about our upcoming Johns Hopkins Software Carpentry bootcamp! Lots of room still. It’s free! http://t.co/iLIp2JZ5 [Mary]
- From a LinkedIn discussion for the International Society for Biocuration group: “American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 2012 Annual Meeting Travel Awards now available http://bit.ly/Jj1YFA“ [Jennifer]
- RT @NCBI: Try the new 1,000 Genomes Browser which displays graphics and tables for Project data as well as NCBI annotations: http://t.co/QPTe59J6 [Mary]
- Amen. I wish curation got the respect it deserves: RT @GenomeMedicine: John Hawks’ blog puts genomic data into perspective http://t.co/kziT7zvV. New generation of data curators needed? [Mary]
- From a LinkedIn discussion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) group: “Its time for the 2012 Dance Your PhD Contest!!! Enter for a chance to win $1,000, a trip to TEDx in Brussels and be featured in Science Mag! Details at http://gonzolabs.org/dance/ …” [Jennifer]
- RT @iGenomics: Just about to finish teaching a fun 2-day RNA-Seq workshop.The teaching materials are at http://t.co/vqhp304z [Mary]
- From The Wall Street Journal: “Making Gene Mapping Part of Everyday Care” HT: Bio SmartBrief [Jennifer]
Special video SNPpet–this story had a link to a video about obtaining samples for genome sequence from unusual species. Makes those mouse bites I got way back seem pretty tame. And makes you think about your choices of species for sequencing. Choose wisely, young grad student:
RT @DNAday: Mapping the crocodile genome is not for the faint of heart http://t.co/hAXJRsow
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