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QT:”
Our results suggest that the evolutionary properties of copy-number mutation differ significantly from other forms of genetic mutation and, in contrast to the hominid slowdown of single-base-pair mutations, there has been a genomic burst of duplication activity at this period during human evolution.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7231/full/nature07744.html

This is a paper on increased rates of segmental duplications along the lineage to human and chimp.
This should have some implications for pseudogene numbers between organisms.

no website, github + readthedocs distribution
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003153

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/arts/design/edmund-de-waal-prepares-for-an-exhibition.html

http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely/an-unlikely-cure-signals-new-hope-for-cancer

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21583310-french-language-getting-battered-social-media-nous-twitterons

Mozilla reviews @PLOSCompBiol code articles: What does peer review mean when applied to computer code
http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2013/08/08/what-does-peer-review-mean-when-applied-to-computer-code MT @lindseeeeee
http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2013/08/08/what-does-peer-review-mean-when-applied-to-computer-code/

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/5/night-shift-belly

Comprehensive list

http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/data/compsci/machine_learning.xhtml

Useful collection of datasets
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=flavor-connection-taste-map-interactive