Tree of Life Runners Web Notes 6-20-2008

Just some little notes here in lieu of more detailed posts.

• Interesting Open Access papers to look at:
• PLoS Pathogens: Ameobal Pathogen Mimivirus Infects Macrophages through Phagocytosis
• PLoS Genetics: Trends in Selenium Utilization in Marine Microbial World Revealed through the Analysis of the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Project
• PLoS Computational Biology: A Probabilistic Model of Local Sequence Alignment That Simplifies Statistical Significance Estimation
• PLoS Biology: Evolution and Creationism in America's Classrooms: A National Portrait
• Evolution in the news:
• A counterattack for evolution -- Baltimore Sun
• The Cons of Creationism, Editorial - NYTimes
  
• Other science news:
• Survey suggests scientific sins are common
• Open Access blogging:
• Historical OA
• Microbes
• What Happens If This Government-Sponsored Research Finds Raw Milk Really Is Good for Us? (a bit of a conspiracy theory but also entertaining