nodalpoint.org

Biology News just launched! Previously hosted on The Scientist Blog, the site is a daily updated news feed about everything biology - stem cells, biotechnology, bioinformatics, microarrays, molecular and cellular biology.

I'm a PhD student in bioinformatics working on AIDS - I know the stuff, and invite you to come and share your thoughts / ideas on the daily news, either via comments or in the forum (which is quite empty right now, but its expected for a new site, isn't it? It depends on you...

Maybe I'm a little slow, but I've just come across iHOP (Information hyperlinked over proteins). I've only looked at the text spew, but I love it already. Azucar!

Posting copies of your preprints online is one way around publishers locking up you work to subscribers only. I just discovered that the arXiv e-print archive has a Quantitative biology section (as of 9/03). For example the the non-free version of a paper that I was interested in reading at the journal of bioinformatics is also available the in the quantitative biology pre-print section at arXiv.

There is an ongoing debate regarding the evolution of introns in eukaryotic genes. As tends to be the case in science there are two competing theories that have been put forward to explain how introns evolved: introns early and introns late.