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Is this a dagger which I see before me? Yes, it’s our new system for flagging placeholder symbols e.g. C13orf35: genenames.org/data/hgnc_data…

Nice surprise, "Mapping Between Databases of Compounds and Protein Targets" took ages (c footnote) but just got a PMID ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22821596

JBC structure papers to require PDB validation reports fb.me/1d1tRHjVE

Post-doc in Computational Structural Biology in Oxford (fixed link!) 2020science.net/news/fellowshi…

RT Slashdot How To Steal a Space Shuttle bit.ly/WvB1BO Only needs a few trivial bits of kit oh, and Switzerland...

GlaxoSmithKline opens door on data in bid to aid discovery of medicines gu.com/p/3b38z/tw

SGC is "revolution"; "transformative, open, innovation hub aiming to create knowledge as a public good", The Observer: bit.ly/UYiG3k

Harvard prof took a sabbatical year and spent it knocking on the door of every Harvard prof advocating for #openaccess policy. #opened12

Alex Bullock's team at SGC reports progress in understanding FOP - a terrible genetic disease. #openaccess 1.usa.gov/V0oyU1

#uksnow OX3 7/10

At #OxRare2013 today. Well organised as always by Lee/Jo/Nadine/Wyatt and Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) crew. Will attempt to tweet summaries of key talks.

#OxRare2013. Alzheimers disease incidence increasing (was rare 100 years ago). Big social and economic impact - $1tr by 2050

#OxRare2013 At least 50 amyloid diseases which are characterised by fibrils, often rich in beta-sheet structures. Found in diverse tissues.

See Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) for my tweets at Rare diseases meeting today in #Oxford.

Great news: all BMC journals now ask that their authors use approved HGNC nomenclature, e.g. see biomedcentral.com/bmcbiol/about

UK Prime Minister (UK Prime Minister), David Cameron, visits SGC Oxford and discusses open access drug discovery with Chief Scientist Chas Bountra

Very sad. Suspect significant damage, but hopefully no-one hurt. x.com/oxfordtimes/st…

SGC spends ~$2M to make a chemical probe of high quality. Sounds a lot. Yet >$5B p.a. wasted cause of bad reagents. bit.ly/1KnC5lY

#uksnow OX3 7/10