Archive for the ‘SciLit’ Category
An Introduction to Social Media for Scientist – might be a fun read
Sunday, April 28th, 2013An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001535 “Online social media tools can be some of the most rewarding and informative resources for scientists—IF you know how to use them.”
Relating CNVs to transcriptome data at fine resolution: Assessment of the effect of variant size, type, and overlap with functional regions
Friday, April 19th, 2013http://genome.cshlp.org/content/21/12/2004.long
initial cnv eqtls
From pseudogenes to proteins
Friday, April 19th, 2013Gencode perspective on massspec of pseudogenes
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v8/n6/full/nmeth0611-448b.html
PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Monday, April 15th, 2013metacyc/kegg comparison paper
Friday, April 12th, 2013a detailed comparison of
MetaCyc versus KEGG:
MetaCyc contains more than 10 times as many metabolic pathways as KEGG “modules” (the comparable type of pathway in KEGG).
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/112/abstract
Somatic evolutionary genomics: Mutations during development cause highly variable genetic mosaicism with risk of cancer and neurodegeneration
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013Paper giving a conceptual framework to somatic mosaicism
Multiplex Targeted Sequencing Identifies Recurrently Mutated Genes in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013Many denovo mutations in autism but few recurrant ones.
“Here they examined over 2000 probands and found only a handful of recurrent mutations…. Also In this article they mention a beta catenin-chromatin remodelling network that seems to encompass a majority of these genes”