The GenomeWeb crew have been doing a great job of covering the Biology of Genomes conference - for more detail on the 1000 Genomes Project presentation see here (or here if you happen to have a subscription to In Sequence), and for a review of the panel discussion on genetic privacy (which I missed) see here.
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If you like ham and bacon, you might be interested in this. GenomeWeb reports that researchers at the University of Barcelona have developed an assay that tests 46 SNPs and can be used to trace the origin of your pork dinner.
GenomeWeb reports that OKCC and the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center received NIH funds for genomics and bioinformatics education projects, respectively.
I'll continue with the remaining parts of my career series shortly, but for the time being, I want to bring your attention to a really good post on doing bioinformatics as a software profes
Last week I posted on the publication of three papers in Nature describing whole-genome sequencing using next-generation technology: one African genome, one Asian genome, and two genomes from a f