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I have a couple of Freebase invitations to give away. If you're interested, send an email to greg[dot]tyrelle[at]gmail[dot]com. For more information on Freebase see Pierre's posts. Update: they're gone. I waited for 24hrs (timezone issues) and then chose three names from the six requests randomly. Apparently all current users received five invitations, so there should be more invitations out there.

The SciView project is back with another interview. This time, Dr Jeremy Squire answered my questions. He is cytogeneticist from the Ontario Cancer Institute, so I tried to get his view on some bioinformatics topics as wet lab scientist. Some great advices and opinions in his answers, not only for bioinformaticians.

http://blindscientist.genedrift.org/2007/06/25/sciview-part-3-interview-...

I was looking for the best way to explain what is blast to people with no background in biology/bioinformatics.

I thought I could to say it's a search engine:
- Blast is the same as google, but for biological sequences instead of search terms.

Finally, NCBI's dbGaP (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gap) has started making available data from various genome wide association studies. This will be an awesome resource for understanding the causes of complex diseases.

Hi everyone

I have posted two interviews in the Blind.Scientist blog with some very good feedback to them, The two interviews posted were more related to Phylogenetics and Bioinformatics, and the third one, which is in the works, will be more related to general science. I am preparing the interview with Dr Jeremy Squire, who is an oncologist and works at the Ontario Cancer Institute.

Hi!
On bioinformatics.org there is this old poll:
- http://bioinformatics.org/poll/index.php?dispid=4

Asking if bioinformatics people are supposed to be called bioinformaticist or bioinformaticians, and if they are technicians or scientits.

I'm sure we're scientists ;), but for the first question, which are the differences between the two terms?
I'm not english mother-tongue, so I don't get it.. when I write in my CV, or in a forum/blog post, or in a mail... should I say that I'm a (supposed to be) bioinformaticist or bioinformatician?

Thanks!! ;)

Welcome to the 11th edition of Bio::Blogs, a monthly round-up of bioinformatics related blog posts (with some additional -omics and open science flavors). The PDF version for this month can be found here for offline reading. For the curious, the previous PDFs for Bio::Blogs #8,#9 and #10 have been downloaded 50, 83 and 100 times respectively. This edition has two special sections. The first one is dedicated to tips and tricks for bioinformatics and it is hosted separately in Bioinformatics Zen. Thanks to Michael Barton for having the idea and for organizing it. The second section is dedicated to personalized medicine, mostly because there were many posts about it during this last month. Both of these have separate PDF versions. The one on personalized medicine can be downloaded here. The PDF for the tips and trips section is available from Bioinformatics Zen (it looks awesome).