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* November 25, 2009 — The Last Straw (0)
Yesterday, Rosie kindly ran her Perl script over the USS construct I designed. The final thing I was worried about was whether or not my design had any USS or USS-like sequences in it, other than the…
* November 25, 2009 — Weening myself off of Excel (0)
In some sense, the computing I did today isn’t really useful, since I already worked out these things using Microsoft Excel. But I’ve been ordered by my bioinformatics consultants to stop with the Ex…
* November 25, 2009 — FTDNA FGS “sale?” (0)
Remember that FGS sale that I reported to you on October 19? The one that expired on Oct. 31? Well, maybe not. I’ve had no further word but the “s…
* November 25, 2009 — MTDNA??? – HOW CAN I TEST FOR MY MOTHERS FATHERS ANCESTRAL ORIGINS? (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — Mismatch repair versus Segregation (0)
Things have gone swimmingly with my strain construction plans, and indeed today I am extracting DNA that will presumably be sequenced. To recap, I made a couple of clinical isolates (86-028NP and Pit…
* November 25, 2009 — Maybe I shouldn’t be using (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — Ah! Ha! (0)
As I suspected – A letter from Bennett Greenspan:Dear Family Tree DNA customerI am pleased to make a very special announcement about our Full Mitochondria Sequence test.As you know, this test has cont…
* November 25, 2009 — Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection in Worldwide Human Populations (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — Become a DoGooder (0)
I’ve been thinking a lot about green initiatives lately for one of our clients. So you can imagine how excited I was when stumbled across the DoGooder.It’s an ingenious plug-in that enables you to sup…
* November 25, 2009 — National Family History Day in the United States (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — Tamed twice: convergent domestication of pogo transposases in yeast and mammals (0)
Self-promotion yes, but still a cool story (we think):In a new paper, which appeared on October 16 in Advance Access for Molecular Biology and Evolution, we show that two different sources of normally…
* November 25, 2009 — WikiPoson (0)
I’m getting started to announce the recent arrival on the web of a new wiki, aptly called WikiPoson, dedicated to ‘the marvelous world of transposable elements’, with an emphasis on the classification…
* November 25, 2009 — DYS607 = 14 rare or no? (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — E-Z Strain Construction (0)
As preliminary data for our genome-wide recombination analysis (outlined in this post from Rosie), we want to sequence the whole genome of a single transformed clone in the next couple of months. The…
* November 25, 2009 — More alignments! (0)
I realized something disturbing a couple days ago, when I crashed my computer by running out of hard-drive space… The Haemophilus influenzae genome is actually replicating inside my computer! Not …
* November 25, 2009 — Play with Penguin (0)
I think you’d have agree that it’s almost impossible not to love the classic styling of Penguin books.So you can imagine how keen I am to get my hands on The Great Penguin Bookchase.That’s bookchase b…
* November 25, 2009 — Junkyard and/or ‘hardware superstore’? (0)
GMO Pundit aka David Tribe has a post about yet another story of an ancient mammalian TE co-opted for gene regulation. The study, just published in PLoS Genetics and led by Marcelo Rubinstein, an H…
* November 25, 2009 — Neglect (0)
ne·glect (n-glkt)tr.v. ne·glect·ed, ne·glect·ing, ne·glects1. To pay little or no attention to; fail to heed; disregard.2. To fail to care for or atten…
* November 25, 2009 — Dribs & Drabs (0)
It’s the water torture approach to DNA results reporting. Jim’s, #174, Y-DNA26-37 markers have just been reported and are posted. He continues to match the Barry/B…
* November 25, 2009 — Wiki Genealogy (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — J1c1a (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — 23andMe – to offer separate Health and Ancestry editions (0)
Beginning November 19, 23andMe is changing their business model by separating their health and ancestry functions. You can read their description here: The Spittoon…
* November 25, 2009 — D4b2b (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — Don’t give up on .14% RF matches (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — 23andMe – How Relative Finder Works (sorta) (0)
By Belinda DettmannThe mathematics of the Relative Finder facility is based on the proportion of total genome that relatives share. For instance, parent and child share 50% of their…
* November 25, 2009 — Autosomal DNA (0) dna,hpv dna,ancestry dna,dna sibling tests,dna sibling test,ancestry dna tests,dna collection
Here’s a short film of the autosomal recombinations we’ve been talking about….
* November 25, 2009 — Genome-wide recruitment of a transposon family for post-transcriptional gene regulation (0)
A new paper just published in PLoS Pathogens is raising the bar on the potential for transposable elements to be co-opted for useful cellular functions. This remarkable story, which combines bioinfor…
* November 25, 2009 — Saturation and Chaser (0) X dna polymerase X dna glycosylase X dna replication X cot dna X dna placenta X dna sexing
EDITED: Used bad mol per cell calculation earlier.How much DNA does an average cell in a competent culture take up? I did two experiments today, which were aimed at trying to decide how much degener…
* November 25, 2009 — How Genetics Works (0)
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* November 25, 2009 — More simulated uptake (0)
Thanks to Rosie eliminating the int function from her Perl model, I got to take a look at some more simulated uptake data. Last time, there were several issues, which now seem solved. This time to m…