Science review - 2009 week 48/49

RNA
Sequence based multiple aligment of RNA
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/24/3236?rss=1

RNA structure's role in pre mRNA splicing
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TCV-4XV2JFP-1&_user=1676895&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000054205&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1676895&md5=ae559eb8ed285ebd773e3cccf143c617

Nobel prize for the ribosome - an Essay
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TCV-4XV8H85-1&_user=1676895&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000054205&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1676895&md5=1f19b7fbd999951ebaaca7301a8c198b

New big RNAs identified in the ocean
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/7273543a.html


Molecular Biology
The minimal cell - an essay (more or less) by Venter et al.
http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v5/n1/full/msb200989.html

Prions - responible for even more neurodegenerative diseases?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5958/1337?rss=1


Drug discovery
Pharmaceutical output - as constant as ever
http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v8/n12/full/nrd2961.html


Teaching
Connecting wired science to the real world seems to result in better students
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5958/1410?rss=1

Hadoop and Life Sciences - some cool talks from the Hadoop Conference in NY

General talk about life sciences at EC2 using Hadoop
http://vimeo.com/7351342

Protein Alignment in the Cloud
http://vimeo.com/7115816

Nice :)