http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/31/genomes-project-inventory-human-genetic-variation
Archive for the 'PopSci' Category
Genomes project publishes inventory of human genetic variation | Science | guardian.co.uk
November 2, 2012Across 1,000 genomes, rarities abound | Genes & Cells | Science News
November 2, 2012The Science of Sticky Spheres » American Scientist
October 20, 2012Interesting account of work on sphere packing. As the number of spheres increases from 4 (the tetrahedron), new things emerge : new seeds not built from previous solutions and flexible solutions that can have internal subparts twist without breaking contacts. Great animations of the later.
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-science-of-sticky-spheres
Predicting Publishing Futures | The Scientist Magazine(R)
October 19, 2012First WGS of multiple pancreatic cancer patients outlined in study by TGen, Mayo and SHC | Science Codex
October 14, 2012Economics and genetics meet in uneasy union
October 12, 2012From EK:”
A very long paper discussing how genetic diversity of a population is related to economic development-
http://ideas.repec.org/p/bro/econwp/2010-7.html
…. featured in as Science Editor’s choice !!
[but]… enough people were disturbed by it
so they wrote up a comment in Nature…”
http://www.nature.com/news/economics-and-genetics-meet-in-uneasy-union-1.11565
authorship issues
October 12, 2012http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7417-591a
Particularly relevant to genomics and refers to authorship on the main ENCODE paper
QT:”
Biagioli agrees that delineating each person’s contribution should help, but he says that the descriptions are frequently too brief. As an example, he cites the study published this month in Nature by the ENCODE Project Consortium [the ENCODE “main paper”] . It ascribes generic tasks such as “data analysis”, “writing” or “scientific management” to large sets of authors, making it impossible to tell, for example, who analysed which data.
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TIME Magazine: Genetic Science: How Far Do We Go? – Jan. 17, 1994
October 12, 2012http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19940117,00.html
Interesting how much has changed… & remained the same
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