recently Dennis Wall and collaborators launched an exciting new effort aimed at annotating the vast amount of literature published on autism. The effort is called BioNotate. Bionotate represents an important step forward towards a sophisticated search engine that will enable faster, focused searches through the legacy of biomedical text on ASD, ultimately quickening the pace to discovery. The effort is a collaboration between Harvard University, University of Granada and Alias-i Inc.

My colleague, Dr. Dan Rubinoff, is the true Indiana Jones of biology. He just discovered a new species of moth on Hawaii check it out here.
PS: he also discovered a carnivorous moth. No kidding. Meat eating moths. Think about it.

Children's Hospital Boston recently posted an article about my work on Autism Spectrum Disorder. Check it out here.

Michigan State University has been awarded a three-year, $2.1 million federal grant to serve as the data coordinating center for the largest epidemiological study ever on autism. Read more about it here.

I was recently invited to join the Faculty of 1000, Biology -- the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary online research service that comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 2300 selected leading researchers ("Faculty Members").

As editor in chief of Evolutionary Bioinformatics, I recently blasted out a call for papers. The call is below, and also accessible here .

The definitions of diseases, especially complex multigenic diseases, are at best blurred. The phenotypic definition of Autism, for example, overlaps with many other disorders. Understanding how diseases relate to one another will not only improve definitions, but will have great impact on our understanding of molecular pathology of disease. This will turn into practical medical application through repurposing of research, and ultimately drugs.

recently an article about me by Kelly Rae Chi appeared in The Scientist.

Kids with autism express their creativity in 3D. Follow Project Spectrum by Google.

328 genome wide association studies have been published to date according to HuGENavigator