Archive for August, 2013

Hedge Funds Severely Underperforming This Year – MoneyBeat – WSJ

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/08/21/hedge-funds-severely-underperforming-this-year/?mod=e2tw

interview with author of sports genetics book

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/05/209160709/talent-or-skill-honing-in-on-the-elusive-sports-gene

Windows 8 Blue Screen of Death

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

A little prettier than before, but still quite blue.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/windows-8-blue-screen-of-death.jpg

In Pursuit of Taste, en Masse

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/business/connoisseurship-expands-beyond-high-art-and-classical-music.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Pseudogene Vocabulary

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/WebFeat/qualifiers/pseudogene.html
http://www.insdc.org/documents/pseudogene-qualifier-vocabulary see here as well
https://www.vectorbase.org/info/website/glossary.html

Unitary & Processed as in Gencode
Unprocessed = Duplicated
Allelic = Polymorphic

Strict evolutionary conservation followed rapid gene loss on human and rhesus Y chromosomes.

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

Y sequencing by Page et al.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22367542

HeLa Cells Contaminating Other Cell Lines

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009 Sep;133(9):1463-7. doi: 10.1043/1543-2165-133.9.1463.

Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells, and cell culture contamination.

Lucey BP, Nelson-Rees WA, Hutchins GM.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19722756

latest Nature paper with cancer data

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

500 whole-genome cancer sequences

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12477.html

http://paperscape.org/

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

http://paperscape.org is a searchable 2D #visualization of >800K sci papers from #arXiv, focusing on #networks in relation to biology

http://paperscape.org is a searchable 2-dimensional visualization of the 800,000+ scientific papers (mostly in physics and math) on the arXiv preprint server. Mostly focuses on networks in relation to biology.

Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job – health – 04 July 2013 – New Scientist

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

Workouts are no antidote to death by desk: Great #graphics of writer v phys therapist daily exertion
http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg21829232.200/1-workouts-are-no-antidote-to-death-by-desk-job.html via @mitchblunt

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829232.200-workouts-are-no-antidote-to-death-by-desk-job.html