Sonntag, 15. August 2010

Cool papers August 10

My picks:
Nature Reviews drug discovery: Gene and drug matrix for personalized cancer therapy
http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v9/n8/full/nrd3181-c1.html

Nature BT: Can HIV be cured by Stem cell therapy?
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v28/n8/full/nbt0810-807.html#/ref1


Nature Reviews Cancer: The evolutionary dynamics of cancer prevention:
http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v10/n8/full/nrc2892.htm

Colleagues from my grad school in PLoS CB: Alexander Skupin, Helmut Kettenmann, Martin Falcke
about Calcium Signals Driven by Single Channel Noise
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000870

Nature BT:  Microarrays in the clinic:
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v28/n8/full/nbt0810-810.html


Interesting papers:
TIBS about a VDAC (Voltage dependent anion channel between mitrochondria and cytosol) and the validity of 3D structures
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2010.03.005


Zhiping Weng scores benchmarks again - protein protein docking benchmark version 4.0 in Proteins
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prot.22830/abstract

Nice read about enchancing docking by using known templates that match. Especially the evaluation is cool: Proteins: Docking by structural similarity at protein-protein interfaces
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prot.22812/pdf

PLoS Medicine tells us that having friends is healthy. I do not like the generalized sentences at the beginning (10% of britains feel lonely and stuff like that) without any references. But the rest is telling.
Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Reviewhttp://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000316

Nature SMB about how they internally fight plagiarism:
http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v17/n8/full/nsmb0810-917.html

Genome Biology wants better genome annotations: Genomic information infrastructure after the delugehttp://genomebiology.com/2010/11/7/402

Nature Biotechnology about a sad success. Gaining 3 months on average.
Industry makes strides in melanoma.
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v28/n8/full/nbt0810-763.html

Nature expresses concerns about a Enzyme activity chip:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100728/full/466540b.html

Nature - finally - direct to consumer DNA tests will be regulated: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7308/full/466797a.html

Nature about really cheap shots by republicans on science funds (alhtough it's funny to read):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7308/full/466797b.html

Nature reviews two book reviews about Leadership:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7308/full/466819a.html

Nature News: Citizen science: Folding at home becomes gaming and thinking at home:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100804/full/466685a.html


Bioinformatics: Over-optimism in bioinformatics. A really cool study how over-optimism biases papers:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/16/1990

Nature about kill'em all (mosquitos):
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

RNA - not waste - again:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7306/full/nature09190.html

WTF? ACS Chemical information and modeling reviews Word perfect.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ci100291b

ACS CINFM: Comparing ligand binding pockets usind C alphas alone:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ci100210c

Nature Reviews Cancer: It's nicer with Dicer - miRNA levels are lowered in human caners - but why? http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v10/n8/full/nrc2910.html

Science about Do We Have the Energy for the Next Transition?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5993/780?rss=1