Blog posts of interest from the medical librarianship, oncology and science blogosphere:

• Faculty of 1000’s Naturally Selected blog posted an item about the upcoming issue of Science dedicated to cancer, including malignant melanoma.
• MassGenomics posted an in-depth write-up about new MSKCC research published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The article describes the full genome sequencing of a mouse acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) genome. article
• Dr. Len’s Cancer Blog discussed the controversial role of Vitamin D in cancer prevention.
• Pallimed posted about providing probability and prediction information to patients, starting with the frustration expressed by Dr. Peter Bach’s New York Times blog post about his difficulty getting such information from his wife’s oncologist.
• New guidelines for reporting genetic risk prediction studies were published as a Correspondence in BMC’s Genome Medicine, as well as 9 other journals, last week.
• News from the data archiving front: Genome Biology published an editorial that canvassed five researchers for their opinions on the closing of NCBI’s Sequencing Read Archive (SRA) database due to lack of funds.
• NLM is giving the MyNCBI page in PubMed a redesign, promising a more streamlined and intuitive interface. Get a sneak preview here.