The Scientist has aggregated all of their content on genetics and genomics – making it easy to read the site’s offerings on about everything from glowing kittens to recent retractions and hot papers in the field. Other subjects are highlights by topic, too (see the sidebar on the left). While you’re on the site, be [...]
Entries Tagged as '2011'
Genetics and Genomics at The Scientist
September 27th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:2011, career, interesting, resources, science
Informational Lunch Meeting for The Young Scientist Program – September 22nd
September 8th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
An important invitation from YSP: The Young Scientist Program invites Students, Post Docs, Technicians, and PIs along with past and current volunteers to an informational lunch and activity fair on Thursday, September 22nd at 12pm in Holden Auditorium, FLTC. Please RSVP if you can to Jennifer Mosher at 362-4841 or by email at mosherj@wusm.wustl.edu. If [...]
Tags:2011, Information, lab life, research, science, Washington University
TOP 10: general things to consider when thinking about data and your work in the lab
August 29th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
10 – Scope: What are you looking for? 9 – Data quality: Depends heavily on data curation, validation can be difficult (huge range) 8 – Freshness of data: Well-maintained databases with current information can indicate a higher quality database 7 – Data quantity:Never assume completeness of a data set 6 – Availability:Beware of download restrictions [...]
Tags:2011, bioinformatics, data
NCBI C++ Toolkit v7.0.0 available
June 28th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
From NCBI: The NCBI C++ Toolkit v7.0.0 is now available from the FTP site. The Toolkit contains C++ language sources of NCBI software that can be used to build standalone BLAST, Sequin, Cn3D, and other NCBI tools and utilities. Also check out the The NCBI C++ Toolkit Book, Edited by Denis Vakatov, on the NCBI [...]
Tags:2011, bioinformatics, BLAST, genomics, informatics, Information, NCBI, NIH, research, software
Lecture Announcment: Cancer Genomics & series wrap-up
June 9th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
It is my great pleasure to announce the line-up for our final session of the Introduction to Genomic Medicine seminar series. Next Monday, June 13th, Dr. Ramaswamy Govindan will give a lecture on cancer genomics from 4-5:00PM, followed by a panel discussion on 21st Century Medicine by Drs. Vicky Fraser, Brad Evanoff, Govindan, Susan Dutcher, [...]
Tags:2011, genome, genomics, ICTS, science, Washington University
Happy 20th Anniversary, YSP!
June 6th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
Today marks an important milestone for one of the most impactful outreach programs at Washington University, the 20th anniversary of the Young Scientist Program. Students, volunteers, alumni, teachers, PIs, and supporters of YSP will gather at the School of Medicine for a day-long symposium today. Among the highlights are: A welcome from Dean Shapiro Presentations [...]
Tags:2011, AAAS, research, science, Washington University
Lecture Announcement: Susceptibility Genetics
May 23rd, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Laura Bierut for a lecture on Susceptibility Genetics this afternoon for the Genomic Medicine series. New genetic technologies have led to a revolution in identifying susceptibility variants for many diseases and traits. This lecture will discuss some basics of susceptibility gene finding and predict what the future will hold with [...]
Tags:2011, genomics, ICTS, informatics, Washington University
Science of Science Tool v0.5.1 alpha
May 10th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
This is an amazing tool for data visualization: The Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center is proud to announce the release of Science of Science Tool v0.5.1 alpha which is available for all major operating systems at http://sci2.cns.iu.edu. The tool comes with extensive documentation at http://sci2.wiki.cns.iu.edu, including slides from the recent Social Network Analysis Workshop on [...]
Tags:2011, software, visualization
Lecture Announcement: Biomedical Informatics
May 9th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
Our final set of lectures related to Clinical Application kicks off today with discussion on Biomedical Informatics by Rakesh Nagarajan. Dr. Nagarajan will present some background information and discuss projects and resources available through the Center for Biomedical Informatics that facilitate clinical and translational research. See http://cbmi.wustl.edu/html/projects.html for a list of projects at CBMI. Biomedical [...]
Tags:2011, course, genome, genomics, ICTS, informatics, resources, science, Washington University
Lecture Announcement: Bioinformatics (data, databases, & software)
May 2nd, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
I am really excited to close out the “Genomic Techniques and Analysis” section of the Introduction to Genomic Medicine lecture series today with an introduction to bioinformatics and suggestions of how you can apply tools and databases to research. I’ll cover a number of topics, including: some general concepts to keep in mind when searching/using/analyzing [...]
Tags:2011, bioinformatics, BLAST, data, database, event, genome browser, ICTS, informatics, Information, NCBI, research, St. Louis, tutorial, Washington University
