Joann Mudge of the NCGR discusses the genome assembly of a polymorphic organism on June 3, 2010 at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM.

A quick (possible too much so) introduction to the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (DNA to RNA to Protein) with fast audio and intuitive images.

Katrina Voss discusses the risks of genetic testing in light of the personal genome project.

Katrina Voss discusses the benefits of genetic testing in light of the personal genome project.

a rap about the Polymerase Chain Reaction that highlights a few things: *the beautiful way in which DNA is copied (using enzymes called Polymerases), *the great insight of Kary Mullis to create a useful tool that could copy DNA in monumental, exponential manner (using primers and heating/cooling cycles). * the human interest side of discovery: the first guy to invent a new technology may just end up with a Nobel Prize, and, should he/she choose, end up riding down Rodeo Drive with movie...

Morehouse College Students, Derrick Prioleau and Joseph Williams, present their class project production on the the genetics of PTC tasting and food preferences.

Biological organization is discussed within a holistic framework . A new orientation is presented of natural processes with an approach in model construction that is focused strictly on physical form and centered away from abstractions that escape the perceptual senses, lead towards the postulation of non-verifiable and non-witnessible entities. A universal construction composed of first perspective representations of path, witness as unique loci in volumes of space delineated as...

Visual method for representing five DNA and RNA bases U C A G T with five discrete values on the gray-scale: Black (Uracil)-100%black, Dark(Cytosine) 75%, Gray(Adenine)-50%, Light(Guanine) -25% and White(Thymine) - 0% www.visualDNA.org Icon is a visual 3x4 matrix consisting of four codons (12 same or different bases). Special cases are icons with equal numbers of the two bases (for example 6xG and 6xC). In these cases an icon has high organization if bases C ocupies one its halves and G...

Visual method for representing five DNA and RNA bases U C A G T with five discrete values on the gray-scale: Black (Uracil)-100%black, Dark(Cytosine) 75%, Gray(Adenine)-50%, Light(Guanine) -25% and White(Thymine) - 0% www.visualDNA.org Icon is a visual 3x4 matrix consisting of four codons (12 same or different bases). Special cases are icons with equal numbers of the two bases (for example 6xG and 6xC). In these cases an icon has high organization if bases C occupies one its halves and G...

A major analytical challenge in computational biology is the detection and description of clusters of specified site types, such as polymorphic or substituted sites within DNA or protein sequences. Progress has been stymied by a lack of suitable methods to detect clusters and to estimate the extent of clustering in discrete linear sequences, particularly when there is no a priori specification of cluster size or cluster count. Here we derive and demonstrate a maximum likelihood method of...