A thought provoking video on atheists
Posted in atheists on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Archive for July, 2007
Simpler origin of life
Posted in origins of life on July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Robert Shapiro recounts in scientific American many criticisms of many popular models for the chemical origin in life. First he talks about the various theories of why many scientists reject DNA as the first genetic material and turn to believe RNA as the first form of life. and goes on to explain and [...]
Transcriptional noise or meaningful RNA
Posted in transcription on July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Today I read a paper from Genome Research 17:746-759, 2007. The authors have tried to annotate transcript products(RNA) from 399 annotated protein-coding loci which represent 1% of the human genome. Just as a reminder, from a single gene locus a large number of diverse transcripts can be produced, this is majorly through alternative splicing. [...]
New platform for measuring DNA-protein interactions
Posted in DNA-protein interactions on July 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Today I went to a wonderful seminar by Sebastian J Maerkl. He gave a talk on the a high-throughput microfludic platform that measures the binding affinity of transcription factors.
Transcription factors are protein molecules that bind to the DNA molecule and help to copy the information(genes) in the DNA to RNA and proteins. These transcription factors [...]
Alternatives to Pubmed
Posted in searching scientific literature on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael Barton has a wonderful article published on six different alternatives to pubmed. My favourite is the hubmed.
Interesting Bio links
Posted in science videos on July 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I came across several biolinks that are very interesting to a researcher.
Bioscreencast -is a database of video tutorials for sevaral bio tools.
DNAtube - contains several videos and animations on various topics in Biology.
Jove - Journal of Visualized Experiments, that describes itself as “an online research journal employing visualization to increase reproducibility and transparency in biological [...]
