Here are the latest additions to the Pancreatic Cancer Genomics group in Mendeley. Some of the highlights include the results of an promising vaccine trial for PANVAC. The vaccine has an antigen for MUC1, which as you may recall from previous posts, plays a role in pancreatic cancer. There’s also a paper on the […]
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Earlier this month, the AACR held it’s Molecular Targets meeting. The interviews from the meeting are available on YouTube, and you can subscribe to the channel. Here’s an interesting interview with Dr. Nadia Harbeck with some interesting news about some trials concerning the plasminogen activator system which plays a role in metastasis. One of these
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With the death of Steve Jobs, the world mourns the passing of a technological visionary who changed the world and challenged us to “Think Different”. It seems ironic therefore, that he (along with 35,000 other Americans per year) should succumb to a disease that has continued to get short shrift when it comes to research
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Social Media for Scientists was the latest topic at this month’s San Diego Informatics Lunch Forum meeting. Rich Apodaca of Metamolecular discussed his experiences in creating the Chempedia Labs site. This site, based on the Biostar, and Stack Overflow sites, is designed to help chemists ask and answer chemistry related questions and is one of
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The PubMed Central Open Access archive, contains the full text of a subset of the articles available through PubMed. It’s very useful for text mining. In this blog entry, I’ll show you how to search for and download the XML-encoded articles using a simple BioGroovy shell script. To perform the search, we’re going to use
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EntrezGene provides a gene cartoon which shows the coding regions and untranslated regions for a gene. This informative cartoon shows the mRNA and the resulting protein for a particular gene. In this BioGroovy example, I’ll show you how to fetch the cartoon. Suppose in this case, that we have a list of EntrezGene IDs and we
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I’ve been attending a number of meetings over the past few weeks and one of the themes that I hear echoed from both scientists and software engineers is the need to stay current with the latest developments in their fields. When I ask how they’re currently doing it the responses vary, but it usually comes
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There’s been a lot of traffic over the past couple of weeks with respect to Open Access Science. It started with Phil Bourne’s article on what the future of open access science might look like. Dr. Bourne is the Editor of PLoS Computational Biology and a long-time advocate of Open Access journals. His article highlights some
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I was talking with some friends recently about who uses Twitter (and more importantly who doesn’t). I found that you could almost predict which scientists would be Twitter users based on the amount of socializing they did in the real world. Some of the biotech and pharma companies that I’ve worked for had a Friday
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