New title @ Mercer: Bioinformatics for vaccinology

Bioinformatics for Vaccinology is a one-stop introduction to computational vaccinology. This is the first book to address the area of bioinformatics as applied to rational vaccine design.  It will be of particular interest to bioinformaticians with an interest in immunology, as well as to immunologists, and other biologists who need to understand how advances in theoretical and computational immunobiology can transform their working practices. 

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Free access to 20+ human genetics journals

Springer offers free access to a selection of human genetics journals until July 31st. Journals include prestigious titles such as Human Genetics, The HUGO Journal, Neurogenetics and Journal of Molecular Medicine. No registration required. Free access to select journals in human genetics.

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DNA Sudoku

‘DNA Sudoku’ pools multitude of DNA samples for sequencing in manner analogous to solving a Sudoku grid.

“A math-based game that has taken the world by storm with its ability to delight and puzzle may now be poised to revolutionize the fast-changing world of genome sequencing and the field of medical genetics, suggests a new report by a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The report will be published as the cover story in the July 1st issue of the journal Genome Research.”  [quoted from EurekAlert!] The article was published online May 15, 2009 in advance of the print journal. Subscribers can access it here.

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NCBI Biosystems

NCBI now has a pathway tool available free - NCBI BioSystems Database. It was developed as a collaborative and complementary project to (1) serve as a centralized repository of data; (2) connect the biosystem records with associated literature, molecular, and chemical data throughout the Entrez system; and (3) facilitate computation on biosystems data. currently contains biological pathways from two source databases, KEGG and the EcoCyc subset of BioCyc, and is designed to accommodate other types of biosystems such as diseases as data about them become available. Through these collaborations, the BioSystems database facilitates access to, and provides the ability to compute on, a wide range of biosystems data. Detailed diagrams and annotations for individual biosystems are then available on the web sites of the source databases.

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