PolITiGenomics

Archive for May, 2008

Short Read Archive

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

While at Cold Spring Harbor, I attended a presentation by Valex about their format for storing data in the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA) (I mentioned the SRA in a ... Read more..

Clean bill of health?

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Last Friday, the Friday before the the three day Memorial Day weekend, Sen. McCain made his health records for the last eight years (over 1,200 pages!) available for just three ... Read more..

Remove the plank in your own eye…

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

There was an interesting quote during the dust up around Sen. Obama's recent comments about his uncle helping to liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp (actually it was his great uncle ... Read more..

Francis Collins stepping down

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Francis Collins is stepping down as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) effective August 1, 2008. He's had a heck of a run, from overseeing the ... Read more..

The geek shall inherit the earth

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

David Brooks has an entertaining, if not a bit tongue in cheek, analysis of the rise of geekdom and its role in politics. Of course, David Brooks is a ... Read more..

How HIV works

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Here is a pretty interesting video describing how HIV infects a cell and ultimately its host. Read more..

Presidential candidates’ tech policies

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

Ars Technica is running a piece on Sens. McCain and Obama's positions on issues important to the tech community. More specifically, the piece covers a forum with technology representatives ... Read more..

GINA becomes law

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

For those of you following my recent posts posts on GINA and its ramifications, you might be interested to know that President Bush signed GINA into law last week. ... Read more..

Do laws protect rights?

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 1 Comment »

Recently I wrote a post about the Senate passing GINA. There was an interesting comment from the watchdogonscience that echoes his post on the subject. Just as discrimination against race ... Read more..

Coburn at it again

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Sen. Tom Coburn is at it again. This time he has joined forces with six other Republican Senators to stop President Bush's proposed increase in funding for PEPFAR (President's ... Read more..