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Archive for July, 2009

SNP vs. SNP

Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 9 Comments »

At the NHGRI Sequencing Advisory Panel meeting last week, there was some confusion about how we use SNP array data and dbSNP in the DNA sequencing world. SNP arrays are, ... Read more..

Download sequence data fast

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

More and more data are being submitted to the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA). So you may ask yourself, "How am I going to download all that data?" Well, as ... Read more..

HMP Short Attention Span Theater

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

For those of you who don't like reading, The Genome Center's George Weinstock, Ph.D., explains the Human Microbiome Project and a few of the HMP demonstration project grants in under ... Read more..

Celebrity Waitress & Waiters Night

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in charity | No Comments »

The St. Louis Crisis Nursery will be hosting their annual Celebrity Waitress and Waiters Night on August 20, 2009 at Canyon Café and Cardwell’s at the Plaza, both located in ... Read more..

Cancer Genomics Tools

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The folks in our Medical Genomics group have compiled a list of bioinformatics tools that are useful in the field of cancer genomics. The tools, mostly focused on next/second-generation sequence ... Read more..

Stimulated HMP

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I should have mentioned in my previous post on HMP funding that the number of grants awarded and the total amount awarded was larger than the original request for applications ... Read more..

OSCON lead up

Monday, July 13th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Last week I did an interview with James Turner at O'Reilly about my upcoming talk at OSCON. It turns out that James is a bit of a genomics nut and ... Read more..

Medical pioneers

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

U.S. News & World Report has a new article about pioneers in the field of medical research. Included in the list are The Genome Center's very own Elaine Mardis and ... Read more..