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… This is not a bad idea. Boston Sci-Geek Tours. I used to work for the Park [...]
BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions. We are members of the community and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those questions and answers here in this [...]
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… Cool art review in Nature of art by sculptor Conrad Shawcross who “is becoming famed for [...]
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… METAREP: JCVI Metagenomics Reports – an open source tool for high-performance comparative metagenomics. Hat tip to [...]
I’m not sure how parents & metagenomics have gotten connected for me, but it seems they have. You may remember my Mother’s Day post. This past weekend my in-laws were visiting us for Father’s Day and a lot of the discussion involved recounting news stories about the tomato-associated salmonella outbreaks & quizzing the family biologist [...]
Metagenomics, which is really a new area of study (barely this last decade) in comparison to most biological areas of research, is already making into the mainstream press. The New York Times has an article yesterday entitled “Bacteria thrive in the inner Elbow, No Harm Done” (you’ll need a free registration to read that). The [...]
Just a short post with some information: Metagenomics is the new genomics . NIH Roadmap has a new initiative, the Human Microbiome Project with a bit of funding . Meanwhile, other projects and databases are developing such as Integrated Microbial Genomes w/ Microbiome Samples (or IMG/M) and Camera. It’s an exciting and fascinating field (my [...]
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