Smell of fresh earth traced to bacteria genes (2)
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Popular science outlets in Australia (1 reply) (1)
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Nature Network consolidated feed (14)
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Newspapers, magazines, Internet sites, radio and TV programmes that cover science here in Australia. If we need to engage with the community more, wouldn’t it be useful to make a list of where we need to go to do it? I bet there’s already a web site that covers this, but I haven’t stumbled across one yet (obviously not spending enough time on the Internet!), so I thought I’d start one here…
Sydney overturns Pope protest law (2)
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Life history and disease in Tasmanian devils (1)
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The keywords to the article include, "carnivorous marsupial" and "precocious breeding." What better teaser could you possibly hope for? Tasmanian devils are dying because of a transmissible cell line infection, or "cancer," decimating their population. In fact, in some places it's killing 9 out of 10, which is way beyond decimation. The new paper by Menna Jones and colleagues claims that the population is evolving toward a radical life history solution to the problem: Tasmanian ...
Cut cable throws Queensland into chaos - The Age (1)
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Cut cable throws Queensland into chaosThe Age - 1 hour agoA severed fibre optic cable on the Gold Coast is wreaking havoc across Queensland, shutting down Brisbane Airport operations and leaving hundreds of thousands of Optus phone and internet customers without service.Optus outage hits Queensland The AustralianQueensland phones go down in major outage Courier MailGold Coast News - Adelaidenow - Smart House - ZDNet.com.auall 15 news articles
Genome-wide analysis to predict protein sequence variations that change phosphorylation sites or their corresponding kinases (3)
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We define phosphovariants as genetic variations that change phosphorylation sites or their interacting kinases. Considering the essential role of phosphorylation in protein functions, it is highly likely that phosphovariants change protein functions and may constitute a proportion of the mechanisms by which genetic variations cause individual differences or diseases. We categorized phosphovariants into three subtypes and developed a system that predicts them. Our method can be used to screen important polymorphisms and help to identify ...
App Engine Community Update (6)
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Posted by Marzia Niccolai, Google App Engine Team Having spent the past two weeks tracking a hamster across America, creating collaborative pictures, and planning plenty of parties, I think it's time to get together another community update. We were excited to find that one of our developers has started tracking App Engine performance, and hope to see more along these lines in the future. Developers continue to contribute information relating to the bulk loader, including ...
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[METHODS] Identification of ancient remains through genomic sequencing (1)
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Blow, M. J., Zhang, T., Woyke, T., Speller, C. F., Krivoshapkin, A., Yang, D. Y., Derevianko, A., Rubin, E. M. (2)
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Studies of ancient DNA have been hindered by the preciousness of remains, the small quantities of undamaged DNA accessible, and the limitations associated with conventional PCR amplification. In these studies, we developed and applied a genomewide adapter-mediated emulsion PCR amplification protocol for ancient mammalian samples estimated to be between 45,000 and 69,000 yr old. Using 454 Life Sciences (Roche) and Illumina sequencing (formerly Solexa sequencing) technologies, we examined over 100 megabases of DNA from amplified ...
Going to school with Google (2)
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Posted by Andrew Mitchell, Google Apps TeamAs an organisation that began life in a Stanford University dorm room, Google has deep roots in the world of education. In addition to providing a range of tools that support teachers in their effort to empower students, encourage creativity, and build confidence in computing skills, Google is committed to delivering solutions that facilitate students and teachers sharing information and ideas.As you may have heard, a number of schools ...
Ig winner announces hot discovery (3)
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Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper. Bhut Jolokia, a variety of chile pepper originating in Assam, India, has earned Guiness World Records’ recognition as the world’s hottest chile pepper by blasting past the previous champion Red Savina. In replicated tests of Scoville heat units (SHUs), Bhut Jolokia reached one million SHUs, almost double the SHUs of Red Savina, which measured a mere 577,000 Dr. Paul Bosland, Director of ...
Pipeline Python - Generate a workflow (2)
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Workflow packages such as Pipeline Pilot, Taverna and KNIME allow the user to graphically create a pipeline to process molecular data. A downside of these packages is that the units of the workflow, the nodes, process data sequentially. That is, no data gets to Node 2 until Node 1 has finished processing all of it. Correction (thanks Egon): The previous line is plain incorrect. Both KNIME and Taverna2, at least, pass on partially processed data ...
Google's GeoData, Open Street Map and Tele Atlas (14)
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Recently there have been a number of interesting announcements from Google on their geo data plans. Two weeks ago Google launched Mapmaker, a site that will let anyone edit the mapping data for a series of countries. Last week Google signed a five year deal to share mapping data with Tele Atlas, the world's second largest navigation data provider and a recent acquisition of Tomtom (Radar post). These moves caused a flurry of posts about ...
The Spittoon » Food, Drink and Genomes (2)
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Again, asparagus and urine. I have to resolve this vitally important issue.
InkSpot and Open Drug Discovery (2)
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I had a nice long chat with David Leahy from InkSpot yesterday. There is actually a good discussion in the comments of David's most recent post.What I gathered from our conversation is that InkSpot will be providing transparency on the computational side of the drug discovery process. This is something that could be very valuable to the Open Science community in general and to our group in particular as we look for new anti-malarial agents. ...
What good is collective intelligence if it doesn't make us smarter? - O'Reilly Radar (19)
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Two stories I read yesterday morning are worth sharing. The first, an editorial by science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg, was entitled The Death of Gallium, a meditation on the increasing scarcity of valuable elements like gallium, used in flat panel TVs and computer displays, which is estimated to be used up by 2017. Other less rare but equally important minerals are also expected to run out within decades. The other, a New York Times story entitled ...
