Archive for June, 2015

Alan Turing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, June 27th, 2015

Princeton PhD, w/ interactions w/ the IAS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Invest in Exosomes Before Wall Street Does

Friday, June 26th, 2015

Invest in Exosomes Before Wall Street
http://www.cheatsheet.com/life/health/invest-in-exosomes-before-wall-street-does.html They’re “akin to the Twitter of cells because of” their intercellular messages

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James McCullough, chief executive at privately held Exosome
Diagnostics, appropriately has dubbed exosomes as “the body’s Federal Express system.” Perhaps more succinctly, Dr. Douglas Taylor of Exosome Sciences, a subsidiary of Aethlon Medical (OTCBB:AEMD), has said that exosomes are akin to the “Twitter of cells” because of the messages they deliver from cell to cell.
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1000 or 1024

Friday, June 26th, 2015

KiB v kb, 1024 v 1000. Appears powers of 10 win out over powers of 2 http://www.quora.com/Where-do-we-use-1-kB-1000-bytes-1-MB-1000-kB-1-GB-1000-MB-1-TB-1000-GB-And-where-do-we-use-1-KB-1024-bytes-1-MB-1024-KB-1-GB-1024-MB-1-TB-1024-GB

Comprehensive transcriptome analysis using synthetic long-read sequencing reveals molecular co-association of distant splicing events : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

#Transcriptome analysis [focusing on brain tissue]
using…long-read[s]…reveals…co-association of
distant…exonshttp://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nbt.3242.html

Mostly protein coding genes

Defining a personal, allele-specific, and single-molecule long-read transcriptome

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/27/9869.full

Assembling large genomes with single-molecule sequencing and locality-sensitive hashing : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v33/n6/abs/nbt.3238.html

Clan Genomics and the Complex Architecture of Human Disease: Cell

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(11)01062-2?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867411010622%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

BMC Genomics | Full text | PacBio-LITS: a large-insert targeted sequencing method for characterization of human disease-associated chromosomal structural variations

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

PacBio-LITS: a…targeted sequencing method for characterization of…disease-associated SVs
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/16/214 Capture reagent+@PacBio

Sequencing and analysis of genomic fragments from the NF1 locus. – PubMed – NCBI

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

publication containing both F Collins & JC Venter!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=1338369

Genome evolution during progression to breast cancer

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/23/7/1097.long

Daniel E. Newburger1,6,
Dorna Kashef-Haghighi2,6,
Ziming Weng3,6,
Raheleh Salari2,
Robert T. Sweeney3,
Alayne L. Brunner3,
Shirley X. Zhu3,
Xiangqian Guo3,
Sushama Varma3,
Megan L. Troxell4,
Robert B. West3,7,
Serafim Batzoglou2,7 and
Arend Sidow3,5,7

Published in Advance April 8, 2013, doi:10.1101/gr.151670.112 Genome Res. 2013. 23:1097-1108