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Second Life

Second Life

15 March 2009
by admin
Evolution 101

New Scientist has some intriguing recent stories on particular fronts of research, including a discussion of the search for so-called ‘shadow life‘ — meaning, essentially,…

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Reference

  • National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Most biologists' de facto home page. You can use it too.
  • Tree of Life: Earth's diversity of life forms, and how they're related to one another
  • UCSC Genome Bioinformatics: Fast, small-footprint rival to NCBI for genome sequence data-mining

Fun

  • Effective Human Population (at Facebook): The Few. The Proud. Damn, it feels good to be effective.
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Data analysis

  • openSNP: Portal for sharing, and fruitfully comparing, personal genome data.

Blogroll

  • Gene Expression: Savvy (and often bitingly so), Razib Khan mulls genomic insights into human ancestry and behavior.
  • Genomes Unzipped: Thoughtful reflections on personal genomics by leading lights in the field.
  • it is NOT junk: Trenchancy from Michael Eisen. Read this.
  • Next Generation Technologist: Dale Yuzuki opines on methods for, and insights from, high-throughput sequencing.
  • Not Exactly Rocket Science: Ed Yong's lively summaries of eclectic new research
  • Omics! Omics! Plumb Keith Robison's knowhow on methods and tools for understanding genomes.
  • Phylogenomics: Jonathan Eisen surfs the sea of sequence
  • Why evolution is true: Sageness from the broad and incisive mind of Jerry Coyne.

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