The Government Accountability Office went commando the major players in the DTC personalized genomics space. the findings from their stealth operation were not encouraging. More

The Autworks site is coming together and is now ready for beta testing.

We just published a paper entitled “cloud computing for comparative genomics” accessible here that has become the most highly accessed paper in BMC Bioinformatics in less than a months time. It details our recent efforts with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic MapReduce web service. Expect the cloud to become a premier computing solution for translational bioinformatics.

In a recent study published in Molecular Autism the genes LRRN3 and LRRTM3, were significantly associated with susceptibility to ASD (read about it here.)

The good news for us is that we already knew about one of them, LRRN3, and have it linked up in the autworks system. Click here to view it in the autism gene network.

Amazing story by a brilliant evolutionary biologist at University of Hawaii. Truly cool stuff that everyone should now about. Listen here. Or read the PNAS article here.

By the way, this is the same modern day Indiana Jones of biology who discovered a flesh eating caterpillar, another novel find that further proves there’s still much to discover about the diversity of life. If it’s out there, Dr. Rubinoff is going to find it.