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P-ter at Gene Expression shows the utility of a good genome browser by finding processed pseudogenes in a region that a study identified as a ‘short, novel, unspliced transcript’ using a genome browser. [Trey]

Semantic Medline Prototype ? [Trey]

Interesting Nature article & I think access is free: Citizen science: People power [Jennifer]

… packing my supplies, and preparing for a new year. So even though the weather still says the dog days of summer, I cleaned my desk top of extra files & tackled one or two of my reading piles (do they breed & multiply at night?) with sincerity.

The first set of articles that I read were from the July 29th issue of Nature, which includes a special feature of articles under the title of “ Can Science Feed The World? ” I didn’t log into my subscription before reading …

… y:100.85930,cat:47.14069):20.59201, weasel:18.87953):2.09460):3.87382,dog:25.46154);

… lot more structural diversity than in other species that have been examined:

In the human, rat, dog, mouse, macaque and chimpanzee genomes the average number of CNVs between two individuals is between 15 and 75 [43]–[48]. A high resolution study of eight human genomes [49] revealed only several hundred insertions and deletions , including CNV and PAV sequences, in the comparison of any two human genomes. In contrast, even after very stringent filtering we identified >3,700 CNV …

… National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will fund research that may use the dog genome resource and may conduct other genetics research into genes that are relevant to humans, particularly in terms of social and emotional behaviors.

The grants don’t appear to be huge ($50,000/yr), but the title of the grant ‘ The Role of Human-Animal Interaction in Child Health and Development ‘ sounds intriguing to me. I have personally seen many examples of human-pet …

… Grunt as a name as they felt it was too demeaning. Not sure if they felt it was demeaning to the dog or to the president, but that’s neither here nor there is it?

So,you ask, what made me think of that long-passed sweet dog that tripped over it’s too-long ears with it’s too-short legs? It turns out that they found out what genetic cause there was for those short legs in Basset Hounds (and Dachshunds and other breeds).

As NHGRI’s press release states:

In a study published in …

… economic crisis just pushed me over the edge.

Economic crisis has animal shelters crammed with dogs and cats

….When the economy tanks and expenses rise, people take a hard look at what they can live without, often making painful cuts.

When they lose their houses to foreclosure, they often have to downsize and do without things they love….

So I went over to the Animal Rescue League and fell for a cream puff. And as she’s a calico I get to tell the X-inactivation story …

The title for the next seminar in the NHGRI webinar series is just a teaser–I don’t have any more information about the next seminar right now. Thursday, January 8, 2009. 1pm ET.

It was posted on the webinar I attended yesterday on GWAS studies so I took a screen shot of it.

If this is a topic that interests you, watch the webinar website . You do need to register ahead of …

… million hits with the top I-don’t-know-how-many linking to information or coupons for Pedigree dog food. As I searched, I also learned how many different things people mean by pedigrees – there are pedigrees for keeping track of livestock breeding programs, laboratory mouse strains, dog breeds, and fancy bird crosses.  thoroughbred, others are for historians or hobbyists tracing their roots. The term pedigree is also used for business tracking and management software systems …

… are into that. We’ve even talked about it here before.

But today I noticed a new twist in doggie DNA testing: a city in Israel is testing dog droppings for DNA to identify the dog, and find the owner and chastise them for not cleaning up after said dog. Mouth swabs obtain reference samples. And later analysis of offending deposits on the street will be tracked to the pet and the owner can be fined.

They say the database can also be used for research and stray identification. …