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Why would we be able to detect more genetic variation by blasting with nucleotide sequences?
Category: Influenza resources
Having a blast with the flu sequences - why use nucleotides?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:00 PM • 0 Comments •
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April 30, 2009
Open science, peer review and the flu
Category: Bioinformatics
Doing science as a community
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Two Seattle schools close for influenza
Category: Seattle
We were joking about this a couple of hours ago, but I just picked up the phone and learned that two middle schools will be closed for the week. Aki...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:01 PM • 1 Comments •
Following flu with Health Map
Category: Influenza resources
Which schools are closed? Using Health Map to follow the flu
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:55 AM • 4 Comments •
April 29, 2009
It's a new flu season: do you cough safely?
Category: Science education
Do you cough safely?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:03 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More flu follies: comparing sequences and making trees, activity 4
Category: Bioinformatics
Did the swine flu virus come from Ohio? Insights from flu phylogenetic trees.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:21 AM • 3 Comments •
April 28, 2009
Did the California H1N1 swine flu come from Ohio?
Category: Bioinformatics
It looks like the California flu strains may have come from Ohio
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:01 PM • 61 Comments •
Finding influenza: the data are out there, let's get them, activity 3
Category: Bioinformatics
Influenza genome sequences from California and Texas are at the NCBI.
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Further fun with the flu: digital biology activity 2
Category: Bioinformatics
What kinds of flu do the animals get?
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Having fun with the flu: digital biology activity I
Category: Bioinformatics
Learn about the flu by exploring the data
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