Link Roundup Returns - Dec 16-22

I've been busy with my thesis project for the past couple weeks, which I think is understandable, but all work and no play kinda doesn't sit well for me. So, over the weekend, I learned go, google's new programming languages, and wrote myself a simple application for keeping track of links - and dumping them out in a pretty html format that I can just cut and paste into my blog.

While I'm not quite ready to release the code for my little go application, I am ready to test it out. I went back through the last 200 twitter posts I have (about 8 days worth), and grabbed the ones that looked interesting to me. I may have missed a few, or grabbed a few less than thrilling ones. It's simply a consequence of me skimming some of the articles less well than others. I promise the quality of my links will be better in the future.

Anyhow, this experiment gave me a few insights into the process of "reprocessing" tweets. The first is that my app only records the person from whom I got the tweet - not the people from who they got it. I'll try to address that in the future. The second is that it's a very simple interface - and a lot of things I wanted to say just didn't fit. (Maybe that's for the better.. who knows.)

Regardless (or irregardless, for those of you in the U.S.) here are my picks for the week.

Bioinformatics:

• Bringing back Blast (Blast+) (PDF) - Link (via @BioInfo)
• Incredibly vague advice on how to become a bioinformatician - Link (via @KatherineMejia)
• Cleaning up the Human Genome - Link (via @dgmacarthur)
• Neat article on "4th paradigm of computing: exaflod of observational data" - Link (via @genomicslawyer)

Biology:

• Gene/Protein Annotation is worse than you thought - Link (via @BioInfo)
• Why are europeans white? - Link (via @lukejostins)

Future Technology:

• D-Wave Surfaces again in discussions about bioinformatics - Link (via @biotechbase)
• Changing the way we give credit in science - Link (via @genomicslawyer)

Off topic:

• On scientists getting quote-mined by the press - Link (via @Etche_homo)
• Give away of the best science cookie cutters ever - Link (via @apfejes)
• Neat early history of the electric car - Link (via @biotechbase)
• Wild (innacurate and funny) conspiracy theories about the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Link (via @dgmacarthur)
• The Eureka Moment: An Interview with Sir Alec Jeffreys (Inventor of the DNA Fingerprint) - Link (via @dgmacarthur)
• Six types of twitter user (based on The Tipping Point) - Link (via @ritajlg)

Personal Medicine:

• Discussion on mutations in cancer (in the press) - Link (via @CompleteGenomic)
• Upcoming Conference: Personalized Medicine World Conference (Jan 19-20, 2010) - Link (via @CompleteGenomic)
• deCODEme offers free analysis for 23andMe customers - Link (via @dgmacarthur)
• UK government waking up to the impact of personalized medicine - Link (via @dgmacarthur)
• Doctors not adopting genomic based tests for drug suitabiity - Link (via @dgmacarthur)
• Quick and dirty biomarker detection - Link (via @genomicslawyer)
• Personal Genomics article for the masses - Link (via @genomicslawyer)

Sequencing:

• Paper doing the rounds: Effect of read-mapping biases on detecting allele-specific expression from RNA-sequencing data - Link (via @BioInfo)
• Archiving Next Generation Sequencing Data - Link (via @BioInfo)
• Epigenetics takes aim at cancer and other illnesses - Link (via @BioInfo)
• (Haven't yet read) Changing ecconomics of DNA Synthesis - Link (via @biotechbase)
• Genomic players for investors. (Very light overview) - Link (via @genomicslawyer)
• Haven't read yet: Recommended review of 2nd and 3rd generation seq. technologies - Link (via @nanopore)
• De novo assembly of Giant Panda Genome - Link (via @nanopore)
• Welcome Trust summary of 2nd Gen sequencing technologies - Link (via @ritajlg)