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Networks

PedroBeltrao — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:30:44 -0400

Two recent papers I found interesting in protein interaction studies:
Why Do Hubs Tend to Be Essential in Protein Networks?
They shift the usual view from essential proteins to essential protein functions and try to estimate the percentage of essential interactions in yeast.

Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
This was a great curation effort (and very useful resource). The analysis is huge but they cover so many aspects that they do not go into a lot of details.

Endosymbiont evolution

Neil — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:26:20 -0400

That is interesting. There's a heap of plastid evolution work going on just now involving the genomes of algae and cyanobacteria. I'm sure that with a few more complete sequences and some clever people, we'll have a pretty complete understanding of the evolutionary history of endosymbiosis and plastids.

Software patents

dbodde — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:08:25 -0400

Software patents are important for developing the highest quality software. They create markets for public and private innovation in the field. And while paying a bit for software sounds awful--when the immediate prospect is paying nothing--no software is free. Bioinformatic software is paid for by the public dollar with little accountability for the results.

On the biological side ...

Spitshine — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:23:46 -0400

I noticed the sequencing of this peculiar algae with the smallest known nucleus.

Recent papers of interest

Neil — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:50:26 -0400

Way back in Nodalpoint history (probably about a year ago), we had "paper of the month" posts. They were rarely monthly and often involved more than one paper, but I always thought that it was a nice idea. So here's a few that caught my eye this month.