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NCBI Announce Lists and RSS Feeds
Fifteen topic-specific mailing lists for receiving e-mail announcements about changes and updates to NCBI resources are described at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/Summary/email_lists.html
Ten RSS feeds are now available from NCBI and include the NCBI Bookshelf, HomoloGene, LinkOut, PubMed Central, Probe, PubMed and UniGene. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/feed/
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PubMed recently releases Gene Sensor, a cool new addition to PubMed which detects searches that include gene symbols for genes found in NCBI’s Gene database. If a gene symbol is detected, the search results include an information box on that gene.
From NCBI:

December 12, 2008 [posted]
Gene Sensor
A new sensor will soon join the Citation Sensor [...]

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Here are some interesting things that have come across my desk lately:

We’ll have a full moon tomorrow and the moon with actually be in perigee at its closest point in 15 years. Be sure to check it out!
PLoS is turning TWO! To celebrate, they’re sponsoring a synchroblogging competition. Check out the details.
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Nature offers a technology feature on Metabolomics this week.
Metabolomics is the “systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind” - specifically, the study of their small-molecule metabolite profiles. The metabolome represents the collection of all metabolites in a biological organism, which are the end products of its gene expression. Thus, [...]

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Jonathan Eisen, professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS, wrote an interesting entry in his blog: “Tracing the evolutionary history of Sarah Palin: links to a parasitic nematode and the pathogenic fungus Botryotinia fuckeliana“.

It is always fun to see unique application of sequence databases and tools. Dr. Eisen also mentioned looking [...]

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