Wonder!: March 2006

Drosophila Resources

Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project: http://www.fruitfly.org
Flybase: http://flybase.net/

For moe links on fruit fly, see here

Good site for translation

I'd like to suggest a good dictionary site for online translation, dict.cn.

It's the one maintained by IU students. Personally, I like it very much for its simplicity and broad coverage. Of note, most of the words were marked with American English pronunciation.

Retrieval of awarded grants

Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects: A Database of Biomedical Research Funded By the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It includes projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH).

Good website for health info

Here, I strongly recommend a good site for general public, www.familydoctor.org.

The site was made by American Academy of Family Medicine, and covers common diseases. I found the tools part was very useful. They compiled a algorithm in symptom part of Tools.

MITOP project

Mitochondrial Proteome Project is to provide a comprehensive list of mitochondrial proteins of yeast and man. Datasets relevant to the study of the mitochondrial proteome are integrated and accessible via search tools and links. They include computational predictions of signalling sequences and summarize results from proteome mapping, mutant screening, expression profiling, protein-protein interaction and cellular sublocalisation studies. old version

PSORT WWW Server

PSORT is a computer program for the prediction of protein localization sites in cells. It receives the information of an amino acid sequence and its source orgin. Then, it analyzes the input sequence by applying the stored rules for various sequence features of known protein sorting signals. Finally, it reports the possiblity for the input protein to be localized at each candidate site with additional information." Mirrors at Tokyo, Okazaki, and Peking

HapMap Homepage

HapMap is a catalog of common genetic variants that occur in human beings. It describes what these variants are, where they occur in our DNA, and how they are distributed among people within populations and among populations in different parts of the world. It is designed to provide information that other researchers can use to link genetic variants to the risk for specific illnesses, which will lead to new methods of preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease. See here for the origin of haplotype.

The match day for residency

Today, every American and internatinal medical graduate starts to know if they are lucky enough to get a slot in the Match of residency for this year, or have to struggle in the post match Scramble, where one has another, if not the last, chance of entering residency program in 2006.

Good luck to all!

Physical Review Online Archive

PROLA Homepage hosts the archives for Phys. Rev. A-E, ST AB, ST PER, Lett., Focus; Rev. Mod. Phys. and so on.

Cancer stem cells

Cancer stem cells are a new and old concept. It's been proposed decades ago, and recently has drawn many attentions with progress in developmental biology and stem cells, including embryonic and somatic.

A recent review/perspective on cancer stem cells was published in Nat Med 12, 296 - 300 (2006)

BioPerl

BioPerl: Perl for bioinformatics. Bioperl project's community documentation site.

Database Categories @ Nucleic Acids Research

Database Summary Paper Categories maitained by Nucleic Acids Research

History of Delevopmental Genetics III

History of Delevopmental Genetics III: Scott F. Gillbert reviewed the induction and the orgins of developmental genetics. It focused on the work of Salome Gluecksohn-Schoenheimer (later S. Gluecksohn-Waelsch; 1907 - ) (left) and Conrad Hal Waddington (1905 - 1975)(right), including the concept of canalization from Waddington