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Category: Bioinformatics
or is it just an idea that's ahead of the curve?...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:37 AM • 3 Comments •
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June 24, 2008
June 23, 2008
Low tide at Puget Sound
Category: Biology (Macroscopic )
It was a -1 tide on Sunday and great entertainment for people and birds....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:01 AM • 2 Comments •
June 21, 2008
The flying spaghetti monster appears at the Fremont Solstice Parade
Category: Seattle
Arrgh. Fremont is just crawling with Pastafarians. Photos below the fold....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:01 PM • 12 Comments •
I am curious: Genomics gets personal in Second Life
Category: Genomics
Are you curious about Second Life? Next week you can satisfy your curiosity and learn about the personal genomics frontier at the same time. Bertalan Meskó announced that Erin Davis...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:40 PM • 5 Comments •
June 20, 2008
Yep, it's a dog eat dog world, alright
Category: Dogs
"Let this sleepin' dog lie, son. Dog-gone it, I'm dog tired. I'm tired of leading the dog's life and fightin' likes cats and dogs against cats and dogs, a...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Biologists vs. the Age of Information
Category: Databases
It's pretty common these days to pick up an issue of Science or Nature and see people ranting about GenBank (1). Many of the rants are triggered, at least in...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:51 AM • 21 Comments •
June 19, 2008
A receptor for dopamine and a mismapped mutation
Category: Genetics & Molecular Biology
Right or wrong, the word "dopamine" always conjures up images in my head of rats pushing levers over and over again, working desperately hard to send shots of dopamine into...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:52 PM • 11 Comments •
June 18, 2008
Where are the curators? Why did they miss this? What is the responsibility of the community anway?
Category: Databases
In a recent post, I wrote about an article that I read in Science magazine on the genetics of learning. One of things about the article that surprised me quite...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:19 AM • 18 Comments •
June 17, 2008
Some people never learn: the genetics of learning from our mistakes
Category: Genetics & Molecular Biology
And learning from mistakes in genetics.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:11 PM • 7 Comments •
June 16, 2008
How much is that doggy in the window?
Category: Dogs
Pet cloning is back! Pets are funny things. Some owners find their pets to be closer than some human friends, other owners never really bond with their pets at all....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:30 PM • 5 Comments •
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