Last week in the blogs
Ape evolution
- Bipedalism: from the ground-up or trees-down? (Laelaps)
- Did knuckle-walking evolve twice? (A primate of modern aspect)
Epidemiology
- Predicting swine flu in the fall: nothing is obvious (Effect measure)
Genetics
- Making sense of changing risk predictions from personal genomics (Genetic Future)
NGS
- 1 machine, 4 weeks now enough to sequence human genome (Ars Technica)
- Helicos co-founder sequences own genome using single-molecule technology (Genetic Future)
- Next generation DNA sequencing does more than sequence DNA (Discovering biology in a digital world)
Programming
- Building scientific tools that are actually useful (Programming for scientists)
- Google’s coding standards for R (Revolutions)
Publishing
- Journal editor speaks about his experiences (Neurotopia)
- Journals a threat to science? (Björn Brembs)
Research life
- Ten ways to be a successful scientist (BenchFly)
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