Mushroom Index: Mushroom Color Atlas
An atlas of mushrooms based around their colour.
I don't know that I'll ever have a use for this, but the fact that it exists makes me happy.
Can a biologist fix a radio?
"Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis"
Amusing paper talking about how biologists approach problems, or something.
Blood/brain barrier
Wikipedia page that explains the blood/brain barrier
ST.25 - Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications
Seq: A high-performance language for bioinformatics
Paper about a language, that is pretty much a twist on Python that's aimed at getting higher performance for bioinformatics applications.
Seq language
A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics
How did the 5 bases get their names
Neat little twitter thread that outlines how the five bases (4 DNA and U for RNA) got their names.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, co - Nucleotide - NCBI
Genbank data for SARS-CoV-2.
Free online bioinformatics course
Many biomedical research graduate programs have been compelled to “go online” with little or no notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since many professors are distinctly uncomfortable in front of a camera, students may not get exposure to some of the topics that they might have expected. Since my move to South Africa in 2015, I have tried to deposit video on YouTube (and PDFs of the slides to Google Drive) every time I have delivered a lecture for students. Since I teach a fairly broad range of coursework, the catalog of topics may be useful for students working from home or for departments that are trying to ensure their students get the training they need. This page indexes the series of lectures I have made available. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I have enjoyed creating them!
Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence
Some good comments in here that explain some of the issues, and solutions, of acquiring a full sequence of a chromosome.
The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
Review of what might be an interesting book about mushrooms and related things.
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
Synthetic biology is among the most hyped research topics this century, and in 2010 it entered its teenage years. But rather than these being a problematic time, we’ve seen synthetic biology blossom and deliver many new technologies and landmark achievements.
In 2020 synthetic biology turned 20 years old. It’s first decade saw some impressive research papers, lots of visionary thinking and unprecedented excitement, but its second decade—from 2010 to 2020—was when the hype really needed to be replaced by some real achievements. So how has it done?
Roche - Biochemical Pathways
I dunno really but it's cool.
Genomics Boot Camp
The Genomics Boot Camp is a resource that helps you to start your journey in practical analysis of genomic data, with a focus on SNP data. The chapters follow the same structure all the time: provide background information and practical insight to the topic, and when appropriate exercises to reinforce the obtained knowledge. The Genomics Boot Camp as a whole was designed to cater to various learning preferences with written text, video demonstrations, and the possibility of hands-on exercises. There is a certain overlap between the book and the YouTube channel contents, but each has unique pieces of information as well. So for the full experience, I suggest checking out both.
Interactive Bioinformatics Tutorials
Neat web-based sandbox of bioinformatics tutorials, providing a sandbox for some of the common tools.
Bioicons - high quality science illustrations
Handy collection of biology-related icons.
Why the magic?
Blog post musing over why some mushrooms are magic.
From the Earth to Your Ears: How Mushroom Music is Created
The widely popular saying, “music is a universal language,” implies that music can be understood and appreciated by people all around the world. But what if we told you that this saying also applies to fungi? Yes, you read that correctly — fungi can also produce music, but they require a little bit of help to be audible to human ears.
Mushroom music is taking the internet by storm as several artists have been producing tunes through the bioelectric energy of fungi. The mesmerizing beats are definitely something that you’ve got to hear to believe!