Take a look at this article from Science when you have a few minutes…

2009 Dance Your PhD contest: Want to dance your own thesis? Stay tuned to www.johnbohannon.org/dance.html where a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS will be announced soon. Rather than a localized contest, the next round will be global. Scientists will video their own dances [...]

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I got started on this journey last night. As you may have already read, the proteome map for Arabidopsis thaliana was published online at Science yesterday. After I read the article, I started poking around on the website and noticed that the most recent issue of science is a special issue on Plant [...]

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Just a quick post to point out a great resource…Sequence Viewer (SV)!
The NCBI Sequence Viewer is being phased in to replace the graphical display option available from the Nucleotide and Protein databases. The functions [...]

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Please consider participating in the bioinformatics-related research projects “Assessment of User Skills and Efficiency in the Application of Bioinformatics Resources to Answer Biological Questions” and “Exploring Models of Library-Based Bioinformatics Support Programs: Services, Staffing, Training, and Funding”
Who is Needed
Faculty, post-doctoral associates, graduate students, research staff and undergraduates, in the life sciences or basic biomedical sciences, [...]

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I can’t believe I missed this one. Science released a special issue on gene regulation about a week and a half ago. I guess it has been a crazy week - the only reason I noticed it is that someone left it out on a table in the library and my eye was [...]

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As you may know, budgetary constraints have forced the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to suspend its educational programming. Included are courses such as the Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Resources, the three-day Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources course and NAWBIS, the five-day NCBI Advanced Workshop for Bioinformatics Information Specialists. The last [...]

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The Human Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet™) is a voluntary, international collaboration focused on assessing the role of human genome variation in health and disease at the population level. Since 2001, HuGENet™ has maintained a database of published, population-based epidemiologic studies of human genes extracted and curated from PubMed. The HuGE Navigator replaces earlier search [...]

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Off topic? Perhaps.

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“I just got two tickets to Radiohead by being the ‘first’ to respond to a co-worker’s ‘first-come, first-serve’ email. Someone else [...]

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