For those of you who don't like reading, The Genome Center's George Weinstock, Ph.D., explains the Human Microbiome Project and a few of the HMP demonstration project grants in under two and a half minutes. Full Post
More and more data are being submitted to the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA). So you may ask yourself, "How am I going to download all that data?" Well, as luck would have it, you can download it using the same high-speed network protocol that we use to upload it, Aspera. You can download the Aspera Connect browser plugin (it is offered at not cost, but sadly is not free), install it, and then begin... Full Post
The St. Louis Crisis Nursery will be hosting their annual Celebrity Waitress and Waiters Night on August 20, 2009 at Canyon Café and Cardwell’s at the Plaza, both located in Plaza Frontenac. St. Louis celebrities and politicians will be waiting on tables and all tips received will be donated to the Crisis Nursery. This is a popular event, so be sure to make your reservations soon. Full Post
The folks in our Medical Genomics group have compiled a list of bioinformatics tools that are useful in the field of cancer genomics. The tools, mostly focused on next/second-generation sequence data, are organized by their purposes (sequence alignment, variant detection, annotation/pathway, significance analysis, group significance analysis, gene expression clustering, clinical correlation, cross-tumor analysis, and graphical/visualization). A lot of the tools were developed at The Genome Center, but they have also included tools from many different... Full Post
I should have mentioned in my previous post on HMP funding that the number of grants awarded and the total amount awarded was larger than the original request for applications specified thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (i.e., the much-debated stimulus). I guess this is another example of ARRA not fixing in four months an economic crisis that was twenty years in the making. I also forgot to mention that we at... Full Post