Lately I have been collaborating with Reactome, a database of metabolic pathways. Today they have just released a new version, with a radical change in their web page layout. Check it out: now you can navigate the whole human network of reactions, as if it is a huge poster.
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open position at BioDec, bioinformatics company in Bologna (Italy)
There is an open position at BioDec, a bioinformatics company based in Bologna, Italy: Hiring at BioDec people at BioDec are among the authors of Ensemble, a tool to predict transmembrane portions of protein helices. If you have ever clicked on the link ‘Third Party data’ in Uniprot (example), the predictions on transmembrane helices are
Phylo – the multiple alignment game
Phylo is a game where players are required to manually edit a multiple alignment. The player who can make the best multiple alignment, maximizing the matches and reducing gaps, gets the best score. This is a very funny and innovative idea. It is based on the principle that humans are better at identifying patterns than
update on the collaborative article on Post-GWAS functional characterization
Here it is a resume on the new paragraphs/addition that have been made to the collaborative WikiGene paper in the past two weeks. For those who have not been following: the manuscript is a perspective on approaches and good practices to study the function of a variant identified in a GWAS. It happens too often
new paper from my lab: IRiS
The latest paper published by people in my lab describes a method to reconstruct past Recombination Events: Melé M, Javed A, Pybus M, Calafell F, Parida L, Bertranpetit J, & The Genographic Consortium (2010). A New Method to Reconstruct Recombination Events at a Genomic Scale. PLoS computational biology, 6 (11) PMID: 21124860. Let’s say that
What is PLoS – Currents?
I was looking at the PLoS home page and I saw this message about a new PLoS Currents section about phylogeny: PLoS Currents: new section on phylogenetic analyses What is PLoS-Currents? This is the first time I read about it. Does anyone have experience with it? Can anybody explain me what is it exactly? Albert
Links of the past month
Nice blog posts Actual vs Predicted usefulness – funny chart of the things that are useful or not in bioinformatics 10 ways blogging/microblogging has been beneficial to my career – from the Tree of Life blog top 10 things that suck about weave – I don’t use weave but it is good to know what
notes on the collaborative manuscript on GWAS risk studies
Here are a few notes about contributing to the Nature Genetics manuscript that I was talking about in a previous post. note2: I have opened a discussion on Biostar, if you are interested in contributing, look there also. Scope and purpose of the article The main purpose of the article is to explain how the
23AndMe kits for 99$ (159$) for the weekend
23AndMe is offering their kits for 99$ instead of 499$ for the weekend. Actually, if you read the conditions carefully the real prize is 159$, because you have to sign to their ‘Personal Genomics Service’ for at least one year. If you are really interested in buying a 23andMe kit, you should know that every
WikiGenes: looking for authors for a Nature Genetics paper
WikiGenes is looking for contributors to a Nature Genetics paper on Genome Wide Association Studies. If you don’t mind being an author on Nature Genetics, have a look at this mail I have received: Dear Giovanni Marco, The editor of Nature Genetics has commissioned a collaborative standards paper on Genome Wide Association Studies. An editable