This next post in our continuing semi-regular Guest Post series is from Molly Brenner, of the Genetic Alliance. If you are a provider of a free, publicly available genomics tool, database or resource and would like to convey something to users on our guest post feature, please feel free to contact us at wlathe AT openhelix DOT com or the contact form [...]
Man, it seems like everyone wants to hear from us these days….Here’s another request that came via The Genetic Alliance mailing list: Dear Colleagues, The National Human Genome Research Institute has embarked on a long-range planning process focused on the future of human genome research. To kick-start a conversation among our community, we have posted [...]
This week’s Genetic Alliance Weekly Bulletin led me to a paper that investigated public opinions on genetic research that I wanted to examine. The GA link brought me to this press release about the paper: Survey finds wide public support for nationwide study of genes, environment, and lifestyle Four in five Americans support the idea [...]
In the current deadlocked state of affairs in Congress, I am still shocked that the GINA legislation was able to make it through. And although some people didn’t understand why we needed it, it only becomes more clear that the information from even beneficial research could be misused. The legislation still doesn’t take effect for [...]
I’m preparing to liveblog this event again today, internets permitting: GenBank: Celebrating 25 years of Service at NCBI: http://www.tech-res.com/GenBank25/ official announcement. The agenda is here: http://www.tech-res.com/GenBank25/agenda.html There is a link to a videocast of the event from the Celebration link, supposedly: View event: You will be able to view the event at http://videocast.nih.gov when the [...]
Some people come to this blog looking for help and information about specific genetic conditions. Although that is something we may touch on from time-to-time as new data or databases may arise, it isn’t something we will focus on. But I wanted to provide a link to an organization that does really great work with [...]
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