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Proposed Q&A site for every life sciences researcher, from biologists to clinicians through computer scientists
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Don't we have BioStar for this already? – Egon Willighagen Jun 17 at 14:51
Won't it go down with the new Stack Exchange scheme? – Pedro Lopes Jun 17 at 16:41
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Not if it's active. See the Stack Exchange 2.0 FAQs – David Grellscheid Jun 17 at 23:34
@BioStar: do you have a link for BioStar? – Peter Mortensen Jun 18 at 21:39
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BioStar is very active and quite successful at present. It might be better to work with BioStar if/when they migrate to the new SE community platform. – neilfws Jul 16 at 7:10
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What is the meaning of life?
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Where can I get the entire human genome sequence? And the sequences of particular genes?
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Is anyone aware of existing genomic variation sites? Where can I find variants for a specific gene?
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What are the differences between different BLAST substitution matrices (e.g. BLOSUM 62)?
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Where can I get 3-way species alignments?
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What are the differences between BLAST and PSI-BLAST?
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What is the best web-service to perform a BLAST analysis?
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I'm trying to use BIOMART web services, however I can't get a connection... Any ideas?
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wait and try later ;-) – neilfws Jul 16 at 7:51
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I have a timeout problem for very large Mascot results. Is there a solution?
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(Mascot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascot_%28software%29) – Peter Mortensen Jun 18 at 21:46
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I need the EBI NRDB database as it was in 1998. Is it possible to get it?
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(EBI NRDB database: non-redundant protein sequence database.) – Peter Mortensen Jun 18 at 21:50
The question could probably be posed in a more elegant way. I am open for suggestions. – Peter Mortensen Jun 18 at 21:50
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What are some good peptide/protein validation algorithms for identifying MS/MS spectra?
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Most actively developed biological databases?
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I am a programmer and I'd like to start working in the Bioinformatics field. What is the best way to get the skills that will let me get a job?
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What is the chemical structure of caffeine and what diseases can it cure?
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