Monthly Archives: April 2009

John Brady passes away

It is with extreme personal sadness that I learned of the passing of John Brady this past weekend after a courageous battle with colon cancer.  In 1987, John and I were in the same laboratory when our mentor George Khoury passed on.  Since 1987, John has been an esteemed colleague and a thoughtful friend.  He and I… Read more »

Biology

Inaugural Meeting of the European Society of Virology

On April 24th the European Society of Virology has been officially inaugurated at the City Hall (Campidoglio) in Rome. Over 150 virologists from several European countries convened for the event which has been hosted by the the Italian Society of Virology, whose President, Giorgio Palù, addressed an introductory welcome.  The new ESV Society, whose main objective is to… Read more »

Biology

Improved bovine genome assembly published in Genome Biology

A new whole bovine genome assembly is published today in Genome Biology by Steven Salzberg and colleagues. The authors employed the latest computational assembly techniques, combining the sequencing data with independent mapping and cow-human synteny data, to produce an assembly in which 91% of the genome has been assembled onto the Bos taurus chromosomes, including… Read more »

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A special series of companion papers from the FANTOM4 consortium

Genome Biology and BMC Bioinformatics have published the first articles in a new cross-journal article series reporting results from FANTOM4, the latest research project from the FANTOM consortium. FANTOM (Functional Annotation of Mouse) is an international collaborative research project initiated and organized by the RIKEN Omics Science Center in Yokohama, Japan. Previous work from the FANTOM… Read more »

Biology

Citations to Retrovirology articles continue to increase

Citations to Retrovirology articles have nearly doubled every year since 2005 for the past several years.  The graph below from ISI illustrates this increasing trend.  In 2008, Retrovirology published slightly more than 100 articles; in the same year Retrovirology papers were cited approximately 1,000 times.  The journal continues to make excellent progress.  Note that the… Read more »

Biology Open Access

Paul Gorry's new recombinant DNA success

Carolyn and Paul Gorry are delighted to announce the arrival of their new son, Mitchell Timothy Gorry, born at 9.30am Wednesday 8th April. He weighed in at 3.84 kg, and is 52 cm long.  Both mother and baby are doing great.  Congratulations to Carolyn and Paul on another recombinant DNA success!

Biology

Science Video Publications

SciVee has launched in the last few years Science video publications in collaboration with several partners, among which The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), The Public Library of Science (PLoS), The National Science Foundation (NSF). One of the first pubcasts has been produced by Eric D Scheeff, Philip E Bourne on Structural Evolution of… Read more »

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Interview to David Bentley

An interview by Journal Nature at Cold Spring Harbor Meeting to David Bentley (Illumina Inc.).David gave a very interesting keynote lecture at the AfSHG on :The advent of individual human genome sequencing. The possibility of individual human genome sequencing opens great possibility to identify individual susceptibility to infectious diseases and to cancer as well as preventive strategies and… Read more »

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