Archive for February 16th, 2009

This week in the blogs ... well, last week

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Yeah, I know I'm a day late with my list of the blog posts I found interesting during the week, but yesterday was my birthday and I didn't spend it at the computer.

Human evolution

  1. A burst of segmental duplications in the genome of the African great ape ancestor (Nature)
    1. Did burst of gene duplication set stage for human evolution? (Science Daily)
    2. A burst of DNA duplication in the ancestor of humans, chimps and gorillas (Not exactly rocket science)
    3. Is human uniqueness a matter of copy number? (Gene expression)
  2. How diverse were early hominoids? (Greg Laden)

Neanderthal genome

  1. Neanderthal DNA revealed (partially) on Darwin's 200th birthday (Genome Canada blogs)
  2. What makes us human? Neanderthal genome holds clues (Wired)
  3. Neanderthal genome gets a first draft (Scientific blogging)

Teaching

  1. The mystery of the $150 textbooks (Statistical modeling)
    1. The economics of textbooks (Me!)
    2. More on those $150 textbooks (Statistical modeling)
    3. Hey, nobody offered me $8000 (Statistical modeling)

Publishing

  1. Impact factors and Physical Review Letters (Biocurious)
  2. Hypocrisy inside open access journals (The secret microbe)

  3. Commenting on scientific articles (Nascent)

  4. Google Peer Review!? (A blog around the clock)

R Programming

  1. Our new R package: R2jags (Statistical modeling)

  2. Find information about R with Rseek.org (Revolutions)

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