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Archive for January, 2009

File formats aplenty

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

In a previous post on the 1000 Genomes Project, David Sexton from the Center for Human Genetics Research at Vanderbilt University asked about the new file formats for alignments, assembly, ... Read more..

SRA at AGBT

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

I forgot to mention in my previous post about AGBT 2009 that Niel Das from our LIMS group will be presenting a poster about our NCBI SRA data submission pipeline ... Read more..

A cry for help

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in charity | No Comments »

This morning I got this message in an email from the Director of the St. Louis Crisis Nursery. Dear Friends, As the economy continues to spiral downward, families throughout our area are ... Read more..

Making a difference

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in charity | No Comments »

Deb Peterson's column today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a blurb (scroll to the bottom) about Fran Pieper, a St. Louis Crisis Nursery volunteer. There are a few upcoming ... Read more..

Next-Generation Informatics at AGBT

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

AGBT 2009 will be starting in about two weeks in Marco Island, FL. The 10th annual AGBT meeting looks like it is going to be very impressive. With all ... Read more..

Against Intellectual Monopoly

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in IT, politics | 1 Comment »

Two Washington University in St. Louis professors, Michele Boldrin and David Levine, have a new book about the current state of intellectual property entitled Against Intellectual Monopoly. You ... Read more..

Now is the time

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Read more..

Applied Computational Genomics Course

Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

I thought some people who read this blog might be interested in the Appled Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) offered by Genome Canada. It teaches the basics of UNIX, Perl, and ... Read more..

Lessig on Colbert

Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in IT, politics | 2 Comments »

Lawrence Lessig was on The Colbert Report last Thursday. Enjoy the fireworks. .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cLawrence LessigColbert at ChristmasColbert Christmas ... Read more..

New look for GenomeWeb

Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Looks like the GenomeWeb site has rolled out a new look. The Daily Scan, GenomeWeb's blog, has a whole new URL too. A big improvement on the old look, if ... Read more..