"There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing."
- Dave Schuller
It was really great to finally meet “in person” some of the people with whom I’ve been working all of this time at BioPerl and other OBF-affiliated projects.
The conference was really good, with interesting talks about each of the projects as well as new developments being made in the Open Source Bioinformatics community. And, of course, we had lots of fun hanging around Toronto in our spare time!
Hope to see you all again next year in Stockholm! 
The expected results should provide an interesting picture of how people is performing in the field, so if you’re into it, please take a some minutes to fill it out.
Now you can generate your character to play World of Bioinformatics Quest (WoBQ) using this guide.
Regarding the 1st topic, I wonder if Y! will someday put hands on it…
The ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements [ENCODE], an international research consortium organised by the National Human Genome Research Institute [NHGRI], part of the National Institutes of Health [NIH], today published the results of its exhaustive, four-year effort to build a “parts list” of all biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome in the journal Nature. The analysis was led by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute [EMBL-EBI], drawing on expertise from 35 groups from 80 organisations around the world. The project served as a pilot to test the feasibility of a full-scale initiative to produce a comprehensive catalog of all components of the human genome crucial for biological function…
EMBL Press Release: New findings challenge established views about human genome
Pedro Beltrao has created two pipes for combining bioinformatics-related content. Their design for now is pretty straightforward, but I’m sure that they’ll serve as a starting point for creating more complex ones. We’ll see what comes with time…
From my point of view, these notes are useful to any programmer, specially those who like to live in a constant mess…
The Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) is a web based tool for the display, manipulation and annotation of phylogenetic trees. Trees can be interactively pruned and re-rooted. Various types of data such as genome sizes or protein domain repertoires can be mapped onto the tree. Export to several bitmap and vector graphics formats is supported.
Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
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