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Sandra Porter I am a digital biologist, teacher, and entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).

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May 31, 2007

Project Jim, celebrity sequencing, and the divine right of geneticists

Category: Genomics

I want my genome sequenced, too! Apparently, it's become a popular thing to get your genome sequenced. Craig Venter was the first. Jim Watson's genome (of Project Jim) was ceremonially...

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May 30, 2007

Finding scientific papers for free: contributions from our readers

Category: PubMed

Suggestions from librarians and scientists.

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May 29, 2007

PZ's fan club at the Seattle FolkLife festival?

Category: Humor

Could it be PZ in disguise?

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Using Bioinformatics to Study Evolution: reading assignments

Category: Bioinformatics

Assigned readings on BLAST and phylogenetics.

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May 28, 2007

Open Access vs. genetic privacy

Category: bioethics

Is the case for open access truly "open and shut"? Will open access impede science by limiting genetic studies with families? tags: genetics, genetic privacy, bioethics, open access...

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May 27, 2007

Using Bioinformatics to Study Evolution, intro

Category: Bioinformatics

An introduction to our Alaskan NSF Chautauqua course and a pre-course assignment. I don't know how well this will work, but I thought it might be interesting this year to...

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May 25, 2007

My apologies

Category: Announcements

for our overly enthusiastic comment filter. Thankfully, a reader alerted me to the problem. I've gone through the spam bucket and you should see them now. My, answers though, may...

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Digital Biology Friday: hot plants and viruses V

Category: Bioinformatics

Through the Related Structures tab and what I found there.

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May 24, 2007

Finding scientific papers for free, one more experiment

Category: PubMed

One last experiment with PubMed (for now).

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May 23, 2007

Nepotism, Google, and personal genomics

Category: Miscellany

Okay, gossip really isn't my thing and I'm not going to make a habit of it, but I'm really kind of surprised by this. Tech crunch (as I learned from...

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