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Agilent is hosting a series of talks on the Washington University School of Medicine campus. There is a lunch so please RSVP to Lisa_manfredi@agilent.com.
Genes to Metabolome
April 12, 2010
Eric P. Newman Education Ctr.
Seminar Room B
9:00 – 9:30 am Registration
9:30- 9:45 am Opening Remarks Dr. Scott Vacha, Business Team Manager
9:45 – 10:45 am Advancements [...]
Tags:2010, Washington University, research, resources
Michael Brooks has a good review of Randy Olson’s new book, Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking substance in an age of style. The review links to another feature which describes five of Olson’s tips for accomplishing what seems like the impossible at times: communicating science to the general public.
Olson’s tips:
Take an improv class
Invest in [...]
Tags:Information, communication, helpful, policy, research, science
To provide WUSM researchers and their staff with access to specialized software tools and resources the Becker Library offers a computing resource called “The Research Pod.” The Research Pod is a cluster of customized iMacs and PCs equipped with a core set of statistical, research, and presentation software packages.
Conveniently located in the Library Atrium, the [...]
Tags:Information, Washington University, database, helpful, research, resources, software
The Mouse Genome Informatics website (MGI) from the Jackson Laboratory is really outstanding. MGI is the international database resource for the laboratory mouse, providing integrated genetic, genomic, and biological data to facilitate the study of human health and disease. There are a ton of helpful resources on the site which enable easy and efficient querying [...]
Tags:Information, bioinformatics, genomics, research, resources, tool
I noticed that I am getting a ton of hits as a result of “swine flu bioinformatics” searches in Google. I wrote an earlier post on the topic, but lost my enthusiasm for updating the links over the summer.
Everyone seems to be thinking about H1N1 these days, from some people in France abandoning the custom [...]
Tags:NCBI, blogging, informatics, research, swine flu
SciVal is a suite of research tools from Elsevier that helps you evaluate, establish, and execute your research strategies more effectively.
SciVal Funding is a “web-based funding intelligence solution” which helps investigators:
FIND the right funding opportunities
ANALYZE the funding environment
MAXIMIZE award chances
Pilot for the Washington University Community:
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) and Becker [...]
Tags:2009, award, event, funding, helpful, interesting, research, resources, science, tool
BioCatalogue is a new online biological resource collection. BioCatalogue was officially released yesterday at ISMB 2009 ( See Professor Goble’s slides: bioit09-biocatalogue-goble.ppt). There are over 1,000 different resources contained in the catalog. The strength and usefulness of this resource to a broad research community will be determined by how many resources eventually make it into the database. For comparison, [...]
Tags:EBI, Information, Web 2.0, bioinformatics, database, helpful, informatics, research, resources
An analysis of the domesticated cattle genome was published yesterday. The sequence is from a single Hereford cow, L1 Dominette, and represents the first livestock animal to be sequenced and analyzed. The project was funded by the USDA and NIH. In the NIH press release, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak relates:
“The cattle industry is [...]
A few days ago, I wrote about the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. AMIA has made the slides from the panels and paper presentations available:
2009 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics – Presentation Slides Now Available
Presentation slides from the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, held in San Francisco on March 15-17, 2009, are now [...]
Tags:2009, AMIA, GWAS, Information, bioinformatics, course, database, e-health, event, informatics, open source, research, science, software, tool, translational, tutorial
The 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics was held in San Francisco, CA March 15-17, 2009. According to the website, there was a 10% increase in attendees from last year’s Summit. The keynote presentations were outstanding and the scientific sessions were incredibly informative, as were the poster sessions (browse details in the searchable program). Topic [...]
Tags:2009, AMIA, bioinformatics, communication, course, event, informatics, research, resources, translational, tutorial
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