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…

• Aw, we’re on the list! Thanks for noting us. Good company we’re in, too. RT @victoriablogger: A Review of Bioinformatics Blogs « Homologus http://t.co/4x0Q2vYd [Mary]
• RT @jokrausdu: [Tag] Measuring the Impact of Altmetrics – IEEE Spectrum http://t.co/yQ0YdykZ [Mary]
• RT @andrewsu: SuLabBlog: abstract for genegames.org  http://t.co/UH4VF3w6 [Mary]
• Funding for plant research – from a GenomeWeb item (requires registration): “DOE grants $12.1M to grass genomics study” [Jennifer]
• RT @caseybergman: New post: “Top N Reasons To Do A Ph.D. or Post-Doc in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology” (http://t.co/pjvsmzpE) #bioinformatics #phdchat [Mary]
• RT @genetics_blog: One Track to Rule Them All: Excellent post on 1000G population variant frequency tracks by @gabeinformatics http://t.co/IDZC7IWM [Mary]
• More plant news, local to anyone in North Carolina: The new Biotechnology Crops Commercialization Center has been established by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Triangle Business Journal article here. HT Bio SmartBrief [Jennifer]
• From the Olympics & GenomeWeb today: “London Olympics Testing Lab to Become UK Phenomics Research Center” Seems like a good reuse to me… [Jennifer]