Take a look at the promo website for Eppendorf’s new automated pipetting system, epMotion. The site hosts links for lyrics, “making the video”, downloadable ringtones, the boy band-like video, and weirdly enough, product documentation. I’ve already posted it to Facebook so that my science buddies from my past-life in the lab can watch [...]

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I completely forgot to mention LinkedIn when I wrote about Social Networking for Scientists last week. Linked in is a great way to connect to people both within and outside the world of bench science.
For more info about LinkedIn, I turned to their company “about us” page:

What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is an online network [...]

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There are a ton of options available to folks who would like to connect with one another. Of course, we’re all familiar with Facebook and MySpace, but did you know that there are some interesting science-specific options out there, too? Overall, I think these applications will become more and more popular as we [...]

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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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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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Just a quick post to point out a great resource…Sequence Viewer (SV)!
The NCBI Sequence Viewer is being phased in to replace the graphical display option available from the Nucleotide and Protein databases. The functions [...]

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The Human Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet™) is a voluntary, international collaboration focused on assessing the role of human genome variation in health and disease at the population level. Since 2001, HuGENet™ has maintained a database of published, population-based epidemiologic studies of human genes extracted and curated from PubMed. The HuGE Navigator replaces earlier search [...]

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Partek GS announcement:
In an effort to provide both support and tools to the research community aimed to foster genomic insight, the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine has purchased a site license to Partek Genomics Suite (Partek GS). This software package is now freely available for download to the entire Washington [...]

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