Posted by Bronwen, Genebuild team on the Ensembl blog last week:

Ensembl 50
Ensembl is now busy with preparations for our next release, Ensembl 50! We’re working hard and we’ll keep you updated on what’s in store for this release. Our biggest new development will be our revamped website. As usual, we have updated some species [...]

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Piled Higher and Deeper: Don’t Lick the Spoon

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Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard and the Engineering and Science Libraries at MIT have a fantastic new resource: the BioInformatics Tutorials Series (BITS). These tutorials are clear, easy to understand, and best of all, they allow just-in-time instruction on practical bioinformatics applications and tools.
These video tutorials highlight bioinformatics resources such as NCBI Entrez, [...]

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XKCD.com is a fantastic “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”. You can imagine my delight when I happened upon an article highlighting XKCD in the New York Times. The title of the NYT article is “This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix”, but I think that this web-toon offers something cerebral [...]

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A new version of the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) and a new version of the CD-Search tool from NCBI were recently released.

From NCBI:
Proteins often contain several modules or domains, each with a distinct [...]

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How true this is:

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Just a brief post to share an email I received this afternoon from Shawn Otto and the ScienceDebate2008 team:
85% of Americans Want a Presidential Debate on Science
Democrats, Republicans agree on need, disagree on issues; health care tops list
Click here for charts of this data
WASHINGTON—May 12, 2008— A new poll shows that 85% of U.S. adults [...]

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Seed Magazine has a host of downloadable cribsheets on a variety of topics. A new one came out the other day, so I thought I’d share the links for the collection with you (most recent at the top):

Cribsheet #15: Quantum Computing
Cribsheet #14: Exoplanets
Cribsheet #13: Light
Cribsheet #12: Genetics
Cribsheet #11: Plate Tectonics
Cribsheet #10: Photosynthesis
Cribsheet #9: String Theory
Cribsheet [...]

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I just received an announcement for the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists.
About the prize
At GE and Science we believe in rewarding the best young scientists around the world. Which is why we want to hear from you if you’ve been awarded a PhD in molecular biology during 2007.
Submit a 1,000 word essay [...]

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An interesting article appeared in the online version of Discover magazine this week. I am always a big fan of the “Vital Signs” column in the magazine and I was especially interested to see that this month’s article was contributed by L. Stewart Massad, MD, a Washington University School of Medicine gynecologic oncologist at Siteman [...]

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