Archive for August, 2009

Ancient Yeast Makes Interesting Brew

Wired magazine has an article on a brewery that used an ancient yeast strain to produce a craft beer. Actually, The Making of a Prehistoric Brew is a picture gallery but there is a lot of text and explanation to go along with it. In northern California, Stumptown Brewery has used a 45-million year old [...]

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Open Helix Offers Free S. cerviseae Genome Database Training Tutorial

Open Helix, provider of training programs for scientists, has a free version of their Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) web-based training product. The company offers both online and site-based training on a range of genomic analayis tools. According to the company website: “OpenHelix provides convenient and effective online tutorial suites on the most powerful and popular [...]

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