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Archive for June, 2009

HMP funding announced

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The major funding announcements for the Human Microbiome Project were made public today. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis really stands out amongst those awarded grants. As the ... Read more..

VarScan published

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

VarScan, a tool developed at The Genome Center to detect variants in massively parallel sequence data has been published in Bioinformatics. VarScan can process both 454 and Solexa data of ... Read more..

UR explained

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Tony Brummet from The Genome Center gave a presentation earlier this week at the St. Louis Perl Mongers meeting on UR. The kind folks at StL.pm have posted the videos ... Read more..

Link pin, king pin, Ryskin

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

A bit off topic here, but a former professor of mine seems to be making a stir in the scientific community. Professor Gregory Ryskin has always been his own man; ... Read more..

Illumina cluster needs

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

There is an interesting thread over at the Solexa Google Group about the IT infrastructure needed to support an Illumina Genome Analyzer (GA). The discussion focuses mostly on the cluster ... Read more..

Learning opportunities

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

These links came to my attention this past weekend and I thought they might be of use to some of the readers here. First, you can access all course materials, ... Read more..

Great Expectations

Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

A colleague of mine at The Genome Center pointed me to this O'Reilly Radar blog post about the talks at OSCON 2009 that Allison Randal, one of the organizers, considers ... Read more..

Bottomed out?

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

You know how they keep saying the economy has bottomed out and things are starting to turn around? Don't be too sure. This "recovery" is all on borrowed money. Sooner ... Read more..

Do some good

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in charity | 1 Comment »

To begin to wash off all the evil that scientists do, why not do some good by helping a worthy charity like the St. Louis Crisis Nursery. The Crisis Nursery ... Read more..

The evil that scientists do

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

By now it is well know that scientists are horrible people. It is clear from reports like that found last month in PLoS ONE that all scientists (OK, well more ... Read more..