Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

Turing centenary: Life’s code script : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

June 9, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7386/full/482461a.html

The great beyond : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

June 9, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7387/full/483005b.html the value in rare genetic diseases

Research tools: Understand how it works : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

June 9, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7395/full/484440a.html

Evolution: What makes a modern human : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

June 9, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/485033a.html

Sociology of science: Keep standards high : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

June 9, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7379/full/481025a.html

pseudogenes that might have saved us !

June 6, 2012

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120604155554.htm?fb_ref=.T829TjfxGmI.like&fb_source=home_oneline Specific inactivation of two immunomodulatory SIGLEC genes during human evolution
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/30/1119459109.abstract

Widespread Monoallelic Expression on Human Autosomes

May 31, 2012

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/318/5853/1136.abstract

importance of having a clonal sample relative to a random choice

Article: Article: PLoS Computational Biology goes wiki | Wikimedian in Residence

May 27, 2012

http://wir.okfn.org/2012/03/29/plos-computational-biology-goes-wiki/

Another Genetic Quirk of the Solomon Islands: Blond Hair

May 5, 2012

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/science/another-genetic-quirk-of-the-solomon-islands-blond-hair.html?

Science paper
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/554

From SB: It is always cool to associate a variant to a clear phenotype ( even it it isn’t the causal variant).

DNaseI sensitivity QTLs are a major determinant of human expression variation : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

May 2, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10808.html
Nice complement to large-scale RNA-seq survey