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 @ProfLHunter: @Plos publishes a history of #bioinformatics.  More about me than you wanted to know http://t.co/aQJK2FeT [Mary]
• Neat: CaPSID: A bioinformatics platform for computational pathogen sequence identification in human genomes and transcriptomes RT @morungos: One of our articles is now available as a preprint at BMC Bioinformatics. And highly accessed! – http://t.co/iSOBD3lq [Mary]
• RT @EurekaMag: WikiGWA: an open platform for collecting and using genome-wide association… http://t.co/ZgOMcMTR [Mary]
• From the GenomeWeb article (free registration required) “China-led Team Reports on Findings from Cotton Genome” is a description of the initial analysis  and comparison of the draft genome for the wild South American cotton plant Gossypium raimondii to the commercially important G. hirsutum and G. barbadense cotton species. [Jennifer]
• RT @DrP_stuff: An OWL powered GWAS browser http://t.co/qkJrIglU (use chrome or safari) [Mary]
• Cool bioengineering: “Shear-Activated Nanotherapeutics for Drug Targeting to Obstructed Blood Vessels” (requires a subscription to Science) [Jennifer]
• RT @dullhunk: Protégé @ProtegeProject @Stanford in @NatureMagazine this week, but it’s a sad story of fighting database funding cuts http://t.co/395JcGPQ [Mary]
• I did not know there was a Milk Genomics Consortium. RT @idtdna: How dairying shaped the human genome http://t.co/Y9dsZ8P3 [Mary]
• Latest NCBI newsletter has several items including news for BLAST, PubMed, RefSeq, HomoloGene and a new resource that I’ll feature in an upcoming Tip of the Week post [Jennifer]