common sense of our genomes?

another interesting article from Nature - common sense for our genomes.
The following are some quotes:

"A personal DNA sequence is not yet practically useful. But it could be, if we had the right resources available to interpret genomes"

"It remains to be seen whether we will learn anything more important from our genomes than the need to use sunscreen, eat better and exercise more"

Rosetta@home is shaping protein structures

Just read this news from Nature... The shape of protein structures to come

David Baker from University of Washington is reporting result in modelling a protein using just the amino acids. This is done using Rosetta@home program which taps on computing power of 150,000 computers. Cool... modelling may soon see light.

Tutorials in bioinformatics

found this website with lots of goodies.

The online lectures on Bioinformatics from Max-Planck Society is a good source for any one who are new and wanted to know more about bioinformatics.

One other very resourceful site is the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops.

A leap forward for SNP studies

... and knowing what makes you, YOU!

NIH has made available a genomic database available free to researchers worldwide. What's exciting is the inclusion of clinical and phenotype data alongside genetic information of subjects. An increasing number of studies shared through this project opens up new opportunities for Bioinformaticians to analyze and single out genes responsible for diseased phenotypes; thus possibly create prediction models that would allow scientists and clinicians to improve diagnosis and prognosis of serious illnesses.

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Reference: dbGaP

Web 2.0 and bioinformatics

Just attended a solid session on Mashup and heard about the following:
Google Mashup Editor; Yahoo Pipes; IBM QEDWiki; Microsoft Popfly.

Was wondering if there is any mashup application in bioinformatics and found the following:
pipe dreams
A pipe to search bioinformatics journals.

I am sure there are a lot more out there. Care to share?

The world is beautiful

some sites that John Larkin recommended:
Singapore:
yesterday.sg
the annotated budak
Australia:
the adventurer's club

favourite life science blogs

saw this article..
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53596/

Nanyang Polytechnic

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They are the best...

My favourite characters

Web 2.0 workshop

Speaker John Larkin's website (good source of Web 2.0 materials):
http://www.larkin.net.au/020_web20infoshare.html

Tools for searching blogs:
http://www.technorati.com/
http://www.bloglines.com/

Tools for searching web (and results grouped in clusters or categories):
Overwhelmed by the information out there???... you may want to try the following:
http://www.vivisimo.com/
http://www.kartoo.com/

A tip I got from the speaker on starting a blog on a specific topic: Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/ to find the relevant links below and find some suitable sites

To have a blog on site (which maybe easier to manage if you want a more secured site), one freeware to use:
http://wordpress.com/

Bringing everything together (and embedded in the blog) and getting the latest update:
http://jaiku.com/

Discussion online real-time with concept of followers:
http://www.twitter.com/