Welcome to our Friday feature link dump: 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… The America Competes Act adds over a billion dollars more funding for science than the administration asked [...]
So, I wrote about defunding resources and briefly mentioned a paper in Database about funding (or ‘re’funding) databases and resources. I’d like to discuss this a bit further. The paper, by Chandras et. al, discusses how databases and, to use their term, Biological Resource Centers (BRCs) are to maintain financial viability. Let me state first, [...]
I blogged recently about (de)funding databases and lo and behold, a new paper was just published in Database (which is a new journal I just blogged about earlier this year) on that very subject: Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources — Chandras et al. 2009 (0): bap017 — Database. I will be [...]
From Deepak Singh: Scientists spend years collecting and generating increasing amounts data. The data ranges from raw instrument data, “finished” data (e.g. a genome sequence which is constructed after aligning all the short reads from a next-gen sequencer), and annotated data, which has been marked up to add additional information. We have repositories where a [...]
The Office of Technology administers the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to provide funding to small and fledgling biotechnology and genomics businesses. These programs are currently scheduled to sunset in September, but this week an extension is being considered that would take the programs through September [...]
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