This is a resume of the workshop on Evolutionary Systems Biology which took place a month ago in Edinburgh. At last I have the time to post it here in my blog :-) Have a look at my previous general post on this workshop, to see what it is about. I am sorry I could
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1000genomes data as torrent?
The day after the publication of the 1000genomes’ paper on Nature I attended a talk from one of the authors, Paul Flicek from the EBI institute, who explained about the technical challenges that have been introduced by the 1000genomes data. He pointed out that for the first time in history, datasets in biology have reached
farewell to a friend
I just wanted to say goodbye to my cat Lanci, beloved friend and almost brother. Last week, at the age of 19, he left me and my family to go playing somewhere up there. He would have been 94 years old by human age; however, this time passed too fast for me. He has been
1000 genomes era has started!
The paper from the 1000 genomes consortium has been published yesterday on Nature. It is not yet in pubmed, but you can read the details here: Nature Special on 1000 genomes In the early 2000, the genome of the first human individual was published. It was a major advance, because it permitted to study the
The Evolutionary Systems Biology Workshop in Edinburgh 2010 (first part)
Two weeks earlier this month I attended the second ‘Evolutionary Systems Biology Workshop‘ in Edinburgh, organized by Laurence Loewe. First thing to say is that Edinburgh is a very nice city. It was exactly as I would have imagined a Scottish city: mountains, a castle, people with kilts, soups, pipes, pubs, wonderful beer, and even
Links of (enter period of time here) for bioinformaticians
Links to articles I have been reading lately, about bioinformatics stuff.
Maybe I should start blogging again
A nice article published today by The Scientist made me think that I should start blogging again. I started blogging about bioinformatics during the first year of my Master Degree. At that time I was really happy about it, and I enjoyed a lot reading blogs and participating to web forums about bioinformatics: my formation
the Kaggle competition: Predicting HIV Progression
I have recently decided to participate to a competition offered by the Kaggle.com website, about writing a predictor for the outcome of an HIV threatement. Since I have not been blogging here for a while now, I will use this an excuse to re-start blogging and I will dedicate a series of post here about
looking for someone to help me annotate the N-Glycosylation pathway on reactome
I am collaborating with the reactome database to create an entry for the N-glycosylation pathway in human. Most of the job is already done, however the only problem I have is that I have to find someone expert on the topic to review it before it can be published on the reactome. So, if you
A new paper from Sabeti, on clustering the results of different tests for positive selection
Today in our journal club we have discussed the latest paper from Sabeti’s lab: Grossman, S., Shylakhter, I., Karlsson, E., Byrne, E., Morales, S., Frieden, G., Hostetter, E., Angelino, E., Garber, M., Zuk, O., Lander, E., Schaffner, S., & Sabeti, P. (2010). A Composite of Multiple Signals Distinguishes Causal Variants in Regions of Positive Selection