SnapShots, from the journal Cell, are reference guides which highlight the key information on a particular topic on one handy page.  SnapShots present up-to-date tables of nomenclature and glossaries, full signaling pathways, and schematic diagrams of cellular processes on a number of different topics:

Tight and Adherens Junction Signaling
p53 Posttranslational Modifications
HIV-1 Proteins
PTEN Signaling Pathways
TGF? Pathways
The Splicing [...]

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Mark your calendars! The Missouri Botanical Garden celebrates their 150th anniversary this year. The Garden opened on June 15, 1859, giving it the honor of being the oldest botanical garden in continual operation in the United States. They have a host of fun activities planned throughout the year. You can check [...]

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Some helpful information:

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/
Comments and questions about NCBI resources may be sent [...]

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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.
More [...]

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A few days ago I posted information about Genetic Alliance. Here are some additional links you might find interesting/helpful:

Genetic Alliance YouTube Channel
Genetic Alliance on Facebook
Genetic Alliance Facebook Cause

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I’m not one to quote a founder of a cosmetics empire often, but in this case, I think that Mary Kay Ash is on to something.
Take a look at the public data that is (or will be soon) available from Amazon Web Services - very interesting!
BIOLOGY

Annotated Human Genome Data provided by ENSEMBL
An annotated form of [...]

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From AMIA:
AMIA President and CEO Featured On “The Diane Rehm” Show
Tuesday, December 2, 2008, AMIA President and CEO, Dr. Don Eugene Detmer was featured as a guest on the nationally syndicated NPR program, The Diane Rehm Show. Dr. Detmer joined other guests Eric Horvitz, principal researcher, Microsoft Research and Jonathan Weiner, professor of health policy [...]

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Genetic Alliance “transforms health through genetics.” They offer a large number of good resources for patients, caregivers, and clinicians on a host of genetic conditions.
More about what they do:

Leveraging the expertise of the genetics community builds capacity in our members through collaborative engagement. Genetic Alliance is at the crossroads of the genetics community—we provide a [...]

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Long time, no post. Because it has been a while, I think I’ll begin my attempts at regular posting with an entry of random interesting bits over the last month. If this post were a category on Jeopardy (or Celebrity Jeopardy), it would be called “Potpourri“

As always, interesting and oh-so true observations from [...]

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