Genetics meets social networks! In a paper today in PNAS Fowler et al compare the topological characteristics of the social networks of MZ and DZ twins and find that some network properties are heritable. This is expanding on some previous work that showed...

I just ran across an interesting paper in Nature on the genetic basis of tumor susceptibility and skin inflammation. The authors use backcrossed mice to identify eQTLs and mapped these onto a network for co-expression based on various skin expression profiles....

The-scientist.com released its 2008 salary survey today. There are some interesting tools in there to find out the average pay for professors of different rank in different states (Avg pay for tenured faculty in California is 150K). Somewhat disturbing is the...

A simple physical model for scaling in protein-protein interaction networks. by Deeds, Ashenberg, Shakhnovich in Jan 2006 PNAS.I've been sitting on this review for a few days because I wanted to really think about what the authors are saying in this paper and...

Genetics meets social networks! In a paper today in PNAS Fowler et al compare the topological characteristics of the social networks of MZ and DZ twins and find that some network properties are heritable. This is expanding on some previous work that showed...

I just ran across an interesting paper in Nature on the genetic basis of tumor susceptibility and skin inflammation. The authors use backcrossed mice to identify eQTLs and mapped these onto a network for co-expression based on various skin expression profiles....

A simple physical model for scaling in proteinprotein interaction networksAuthors: E. J. Deeds, O. Ashenberg, and E. L. ShaknovichJournal: PNASYear: 2006Volume: 103Issue: 2Pages: 311-316ISSN: 0027-8424This article caught my attention for a couple of reasons...