Temporary hiatus

I'm going into hospital tommorrow to have surgery to fix a problem with my hip, so I won't be posting for the next week or two. There's plenty of reading to be had if you follow some of the links to the right though.

Neil has a post over at Nodalpoint about New Year hopes and fears (in the bioinformatics sense). My two pence are:

Two things that I think'll be hot (in my homo sapiens centric view):

• Human structural genomics - in the chromatin architecture sense - finally getting some high-throughput (sort of) data, from ENCODE if nothing else (oh yeah, ENCODE is next year's HapMap).
• High recall, high precision regulatory element prediction should happen sometime in the next year. Then we'll just be stuck with the same problem as we have with genes i.e. we know where they are, but not what do they do...

My hopes are that people will stop writing about protein interaction networks until they get some new datasets and that a community builds around some open source LIMS so that we finally have a fully featured one that is continually supported and patched, etc etc.

Hope everybody had a merry christmas (if that's appropriate) and a happy new year, in any case.