received that today / das kam heute morgen an

The idea might not be new – we already diluted DNA already a decade ago ( see this 2003 paper ). A new Nature paper by Peters ( Accurate whole-genome sequencing and haplotyping from 10 to 20 human cells… ) now shows that diluting DNA into 384 wells, adding unique tags, and pooling again before sequencing everything on a Hiseq, will result in an enormous reduction of sequencing errors – a problem that we are fighting now for a year. IMHO the paper isn’t primarily about the low number of cells that can be sequenced, but also about error reduction in WGS. The two key facts are certainly

To ensure complete representation of the genome we maximized the input of DNA fragments for a given read coverage and number of aliquots. Unlike other experimental approaches this resulted in low- coverage read data for each fragment in each of the wells a fragment is found in.

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The EU is supporting Open Access too. 12431 scientists already signed the petition at http://www.thecostofknowledge.com by today!

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There are so cute little files while I am constantly looking up addresses in travel guides, madly identifying them at google earth before transferring location bookmarks to my mobile devices.

Why can’t publishers produce just some small geo.kml or geo.rdf files, deposit them somewhere on their web server and link them with barcodes that are printed each time a geolocation is referred too (example link Groebenzell)?

The iPhone needs a slightly different form (without kml) as well as an app like i-nigma that is pointed by this barcode

to maps://?geocode=&q=gr%C3%B6benzell&ie=UTF8&client=safari&oe=UTF-8&hnear=Gr%C3%B6benzell,+Oberbayern,+Bayern&gl=de&t=m&z=14”>Groebenzell.