PN. Some useful sites provided by Matt Cook from Udacity.com
SNPedia is a wiki investigating human genetics. We share information about the effects of variations in DNA, citing peer-reviewed scientific publications. It is used by Promethease to analyze and help explain your DNA.
Search for SNP on NCBI Reference Assembly
An Online Catalog of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders
Updated 27 December 2013
PN. Great Databank for Pharmacogenomics
is a pharmacogenomics knowledge resource that encompasses clinical information including dosing guidelines and drug labels, potentially clinically actionable gene-drug associations and genotype-phenotype relationships. PharmGKB collects, curates and disseminates knowledge about the impact of human genetic variation on drug responses through the following activities:
at Science http://www.sciencemag.org/
Listen to a special show on this year’s breakthrough, runners up, and the top stories from our daily news site.
In this show:
Deputy news editor Robert Coontz discusses highlights from the year in science and Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks about the breakthrough of the year: cancer immunotherapy.
A rundown of daily news stories from ScienceNOW and ScienceInsider
by Stephanie Seiler at UW Health Sciences & UW Medicine
Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make sense of health and disease.
Genome scientist Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos led a team that discovered a second code hidden in DNA.
A research team led by Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington associate professor of genome sciences and of medicine, made the discovery. The findings are reported in the Dec. 13 issue of Science.
Read the research paper. Also see commentary in Science, “The Hidden Codes that Shape Protein Evolution.”
The work is part of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, also known as ENCODE. The National Human Genome Research Institute funded the multi-year, international effort. ENCODE aims to discover where and how the directions for biological functions are stored in the human genome.
Since the genetic code was deciphered in the 1960s, scientists have assumed that it was used exclusively to write information about proteins. UW scientists were stunned to discover that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages. One describes how proteins are made, and the other instructs the cell on how genes are controlled. One language is written on top of the other, which is why the second language remained hidden for so long. Continue reading
by Julia Wilkins, PhD and Amy Janel Eisenbraun, MS at Academia.edu
by Code.org
It’s not every day you get to launch a campaign kicked off by the President, with Google replacing its logo in support, with a workshop in Apple retail store in America, with support from Ashton Kutcher to Shakira to Chris Bosh. It turns out computer science is a lot more mainstream than people think.
Today I am humbled and excited to announce Computer Science Education Week 2013, and I welcome 5 million students in 35,000 schools across 167 countries to their first Hour of Code.
The Hour of Code video (2min). Watch it. Spread it across the country:
