Archive for September, 2012

ENCODE project sheds light on human DNA and disease – latimes.com

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-dna-encode-20120906,0,7798745.story
Definitely plays junk DNA story a bit strong, with ENCODE “upending conventional wisdom”

Exome sequencing and the genetic basis of complex traits

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

Figure 1 in a recent Nature Genetics paper useful for LOF — saturation of LoF, essentially something that describes how many LoF variants we see as we keep adding more samples :

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v44/n6/full/ng.2303.html

QT:”
Basically, LoF variants are so enriched for ultra-rare variants that they show no sign of saturation, and the catalogue will continue to grow as more and more exomes are sequenced.

Slow motion

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

Dumt & Farligt – Phantom Flex Highlights – 1080p

Open Science Data Cloud

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

The Open Science Data Cloud hosts a number of large data collections that seem likely to be of significant interest to Yale genomics researchers. The current public data collections are described at http://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata .

Far From ‘Junk,’ DNA Dark Matter Proves Crucial to Health – NYTimes.com

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/science/far-from-junk-dna-dark-matter-proves-crucial-to-health.html

Kbase developers

Saturday, September 29th, 2012

If you are interested in joining Kbase development, here is good a start site. http://kbase.us/developer-zone/

Knome Launches knoSYS 100 Genome Supercomputer to Enhance Interpretation

Saturday, September 29th, 2012

http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/09/27/12/Knome-launches-knoSYS100-genome-supercomputer-enhance-interpretation.html

igraph software

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

QT:
“igraph is a free software package for creating and manipulating undirected and directed graphs. It includes implementations for classic graph theory problems like minimum spanning trees and network flow, and also implements algorithms for some recent network analysis methods, like community structure search.

http://igraph.sourceforge.net/

Nice List of Genomic Software Providers

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

http://grouthbio.com/Genome_Software_Service.php

authorship issues

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

particularly relevant to genomics
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7417-591a