Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009

Science review - 2009 week 43

Glamour:
Nature about scientists talking journalists fooling them and how to react (and how not):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7266/full/461848a.html


About the Polymath project, where a mathematic problem was solved using an open approach with wikis and so on - really cool:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7266/full/461879a.html

and then you could also read an article about Google Wave and it's impact for science (accoring to the author - I am less sure there will be an impact).:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7266/full/461881a.html

KAUST - the universtiy in the desert (and in a dictatorship like kingdom):
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5951/354?rss=1

PLoS Medicine - refocuses and adopts new interesting concepts - from Twitter to PLoS Currents:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000167


Methylation:
An interview with one of founders of "methylation": Adrian Bird
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000667

Nice debate about how methylation patterns are generated:
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v10/n11/full/nrg2651.html

RNA:
Three way junctions in RNA - found in many RNA structures:
http://rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/15/11/1949.short?rss=1


Biology and Chemistry:
Nature Chemical Biology about the downsides of an reductionist apporach - Cells are more than the simple sum of it's part (systems biology?)
http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v5/n11/full/nchembio.258.html
http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v5/n11/full/nchembio.241.html

RNA and Chromatin structure control a range of biological processes - an overview:
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v10/n11/full/nrg2692.html

Structual Biology:
Oberving biology in atomic resolution in real time - cool:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TCV-4XGTJ7J-1&_user=1676895&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000054205&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1676895&md5=635a71eaba1f693b8a8e71044c882860

Bioinformatics:
A new twist for determining possible drug targets based on kinetic network models:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/344

Know the CPU architecture and make BLAST faster:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/329

Riboswitch detection on sequence level:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/325

Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2009

Glad to know that the PSI is advancing

PSI (Protein Structure initiative) is an initiative that aims to shed light on proteins with roughly unknown function.

There is a new videocast available from a recent meeting:
http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=4

Want to know more? Here's the FAQ:
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Initiatives/PSI/psi_biology/psibiology_faqs.htm

And the corresponding press report is at:
http://kb.psi-structuralgenomics.org/update/2009/10/full/nw_psisgkb.2009.47.html