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…
- Ask a biologist site, intended primarily to serve grades preK-12, includes activities, stories, images & more – pass it on if you know any kids with questions.
[Jennifer] - From BJÖRN BREMBS, someone I met at ScienceOnline a few years back: Do Fruit Flies Dream of Electric Bananas? [Jennifer]
- Zoiks. Plague researcher dies, probably due to his own genome: RT @acronymrequired: Now we know: when a U. Chicago prof studying #plague scarily died, his own anti-plague genome was implicated. http://bloom.bg/dSbL93 [Mary]
- FYI: “NIH Seeks Input on Challenges and Opportunities in Single Cell Analysis for Biomedical Research” See the Request for Information (RFI) here, deadline March 18th [Jennifer]
- Not bioinformatics, but this tweet will crack up most scientists, I think: @sciencegeist: Hahahahahaha! RT @CBC_excimer: New JACS article out on how to get papers into JACS: http://wp.me/p8iAZ-mV ” lulz (hat tip to @UnstableIsotope) [Mary]
- Sequence Read Archive and Trace Archive at NCBI are closing down due to budget constraints, the notice encourages submissions to a list of other repositories [Trey]
- Cytoscape retreat announcement: The Cytoscape team, the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB) and the San Diego Center for Systems Biology (SDCSB) are pleased to announce the 2011 Cytoscape Retreat and Symposium being held this May 18-21 in La Jolla, California! Full mail at the Cytoscape list. http://groups.google.com/group/cytoscape-announce?hl=en. [Mary]
- 5amSolutions created the opensource family health history tool, used by Welch’s Family Vine Tool. Hmm, there is something I could have used when doing my family health history [Trey]
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