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Jan 21, 2009

At My Biotech Life, Ricardo Vidal has his own list of the top 10 life science-related apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Some, such as Molecules and Solutions, overlap with Bala Chandar's list over at Bitesize Bio, but Vidal's list has some new gems, including iCut DNA that connects to the restriction enzyme database and Primer Jot that helps users keep their primers and oligos straight.

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In Nature this week: catalog of DNA viruses of the human gut microbiome, new dense depth data dump format to store quantitative genomic data, and more.