Friday SNPets
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…
- Another SPORE winner: “PlantingScience – fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship.” [Jennifer]
- Interesting discussion going on over at Genomes Unzipped about whether we should scrap the peer-review system and what should replace it. [Trey]
- Free virtual symposium from Biotechniques, October 5, 2011: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM EDT: The Genome and Beyond “The Latest in Genomics, Proteomics, and Cell Biology: How New Technology and Methods Are Changing Our Understanding” [Jennifer]
- Cool story of how “modern science” can work: Scientists Rush to Study Genome of Lethal E. coli [Jennifer]
- Art in science, the “art of science filed notes.” Quite beautiful. [Trey]
- “Economics of membrane occupancy and respiro-fermentation” – interesting article published 21 June 2011 in Molecular Systems Biology [Jennifer]
- In case you haven’t seen it yet, the new online open access journal from Nature, Scientific Reports, is now alive & accepting submissions. [Jennifer]
- Interesting article on challenges faced by the Proteome Commons and other proteomic databases: Thank you for sharing – it appears in BioTechniques back in May [Jennifer]

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