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Wilfred Wu and 5 others were tagged in Sander Timmer's album.
Interesting thought
These people (+Steven Roberts and others) used +figshare to publish their supplementary data and cite it in their paper. Interesting move for getting this kind of data into the open a bit more on an easy accessible central location.
They cite for example this dataset of themselves: http://goo.gl/m6TB8
Reshared post from +Steven Roberts
Our paper on gene discovery and SNP development in Pacific herring using 454 pyrosequencing just came out in PLoSone!
Development of Genomic Resources for Pacific Herring through Targeted Transcriptome Pyrosequencing
Pacific herring support commercially and culturally important fisheries but have experienced significant additional pressure from a variety of anthropogenic and environmental sources. In order to provide genomic resources to facilitate organismal and population level research, high-throughput pyrosequencing (Roche 454) was carried out on transcriptome libraries from liver and testes samples taken in Prince William Sound, the Bering Sea, and the Gulf of Alaska. Over 40,000 contigs were identified with an average length of 728 bp. We describe an annotated transcriptome as well as a workflow for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery and validation. These genomic resources provide a basis for environmental physiology studies and opportunities for marker development and subsequent population structure analysis.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030908
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Interesting fact: Includes my first citations of #figshare for supplementary material (liver and testes transcriptomes). #openscience #opendata
In album plosone Herring Paper (8 photos)
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Rowing in Cambridge at +Cambridge University is all about 2 major events, Lent Bumps…
Rowing in Cambridge at +Cambridge University is all about 2 major events, Lent Bumps and May Bumps – 2 events in which the colleges compete on the river cam to settle who has the best team/college this year (Lent Bumps has been held annually since 1887).
This week is Lent Bumps where my team managed to get the first bump in like 500 meters on the first day making us bump up a position and in this case even bump up a division (we're now head of 1 division and bottom of the next division).
The pictures show the last few strokes before bumping the crew in front of us and the actual bump! Look at those scared doctors 🙂
Getting closer…..
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