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Archive for September, 2008

The Genome Center celebrities

Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

Recently, a few employees at The Genome Center have appeared in the local press. First, a story on Companion's Bakery featured a picture of informaticians Scott Smith and Chris Harris. ... Read more..

TCGA project finds link between methylation and patient outcome

Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Researcher from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center recently presented some of their findings from The Cancer Genome Atlas at the American Association for Cancer Research Molecular ... Read more..

Policies vs. personalities

Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

In a recent post, I wrote the following We are left with a conventional Democratic campaign talking about policy and a conventional Republican campaign talking about character. I think we ... Read more..

Pristionchus pacificus

Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Have you ever wanted to learn more about parasitic roundworms that feast on the bacteria, fungi and other small roundworms that grow on beetle carcasses after they have died? Well, ... Read more..

Bleakonomics

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

If you are interested in a good summary of the current financial crisis and how it is likely to play out over the coming days and months, I would recommend ... Read more..

lsgmake-gap-0.9 released

Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

About a year ago Tim Cutts from Sanger suggested I modify (he was being nice, improve is more accurate) lsgmake-gap to use LSF's job arrays rather than spawning a separate ... Read more..

SOLiD2SRF

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In a previous post, I discussed the sequence read format (SRF), the implementation of the SRF specification for Illumina/Solexa data, and potential implementations for Roche/454 and AB SOLiD data. Well, ... Read more..

Renewable energy from bacteria?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

There has been a lot of research in recent years, largely funded by the Department of Energy, into microorganisms that can produce fuels or other usable, renewable forms of energy. ... Read more..

Open access under attack

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 8 Comments »

Since Congress voted to encourage NIH to adopt an open access policy for scholarly publications that resulted from research it funded, the journal publishers have lobbied Congress to reverse it. ... Read more..

Just the facts

Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Well, it seems the campaign season is in full swing, you can tell by the smell of bs in the air. How can you distinguish the truth from the lies? ... Read more..