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 @kozo2 [Mary]
- PLoS now has a blogging network. Science blogging continues to diversify [Trey]
- USGS has a genomics site? I thought they just did earthquakes. From their page they refer to the sequencing of the fungus that’s affecting bat populations, and their team is involved with that. Neat. Plus lots of other interesting genetics of wildlife issues. And a microbiology component. Wowsa. H/T to @lakeganharris [Mary]
- Crowd-sourcing a genome project: to raise funds for sequencing the whale shark genome, you can buy hair bands. I’m not sure I get the linkage–but if I still had long hair I’d probably do it… Whale shark genome schwag has been unbridled! [Mary]
- Speaking of crowds (crowds of variations?.. something :D), HapMap 3 paper just came out and Razib Khan has an excellent blog post about it. [Trey]
- Organizations that you might consider joining, or at least following: Scientists without Borders, UNESCO, and WAY: World Association of Young Scientists – Science, Remixed. [Jennifer]
- I might have to read the full article, based on this summary: “Sweet fruit from a poisonous kiss” by Delong Liu Full paper by Zhang et al at Science. 2010 Apr 9;328(5975):240-3. [Jennifer]
- ensembl wants your feedback. Check out their survey: http://bit.ly/cTSXyu [Mary]
- Check it out – the series of ScienceOnline interviews, or my specific interview – you decide which to read…
[Jennifer] - more than 2 weeks of science fun throughout North Carolina and including the MythBusters guys: NC Science Festival 2010 – Life is Your Lab! [Jennifer]