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…
- Shout out to Daniel MacArthur and Paul D. who sought us out at ASHG to say hello. It was great to meet you guys. [Mary]
- While I was away last week an update email came from DGV–Database of Genome Variants. They alert us to this: “The Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) has just been updated, with data added from four new studies. A total of 12,497 new variants have been added, including data from the HapMap III Consortium.” And you can learn more in their newsletter (a PDF). [Mary]
- Best Captcha evah (as Mary would say) [Trey]
- The PDB mailing list had an email from Dan Bolser, who is creating a list of BioWikis: http://nettab.referata.com/wiki/BioWiki [Mary]
- Complete Genomics didn’t get the 12-14 price they projected (9 instead) in their IPO, I think it had to do with the press personal genomics is getting, not the company [Trey]
- On a somewhat related not to CG above, interesting post from Genomics Law Report: sequencing for thousands, suing for millions. [Trey]
- I knew science could be tough, but I had no idea it was this bad off: Undergraduate Science: Better Intro Courses Seen as Key to Reducing Attrition of STEM Majors [Jennifer]
- I liked this example of a cool model for epigenomics studies: Honey Bees: Genetic Labeling Decides About Blue Blood [Mary]
- Also stopping by the booth was Dr. Digamber Borgaonkar, the founder of the Chromosomal Variation in Man literature database. Thanks for mentioning it! [Mary]
- Tweet of the week: @rich_: Going to start a rad new field: a systems approach to comp.genomics and phenomics. It shall be called “biology”. #wrongsideofbed [Mary]
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