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"This paper presents an alternative visual web-enabled interpretation of the short-based graphical sequential narration titled Nature vs. Science, pt. 1 (NAT). It is hypothesized that use of this secondary interface suffused with third-person linguistic usage and academic spatial distribution will provide improvement in perceived acumen generated from stochastic interactions with supervisory archtypes found in learning environments. Results show that persistent exposure to phdcomics dot com (PDC) is mildly correlated to jocular deportment, which suggests improvements in temporal-delay behavior of bounded activity. " - Abhishek Tiwari from Bookmarklet

"If only you had that problem" LOL - Yann Abraham

Congrats :-) - Madhu Pandey

If it were only this easy. That said, there is a lot of data available. Have away my friend - Deepak Singh from Bookmarklet

you said it :) - Deepak Singh from IM

I don't think its a versus post, more of a "we're lacking this core group of programmers, which is a shame cause we could use a *lot* of them" type of post. I tend to agree in that its a shame that bioinformatics isn't driving more innovation in software than it is, although, I'm not convinced that docs are the largest hurdle to navigate in recruiting hackers. - Paul J. Davis

SDD will hopefully make the checkpointing work efficiently for the optimists and pessimists. - Todd Hoff

Lot of heat out there in comment section :-) - Anil Thomas

Nice, do report back if any interesting synergy turns up from meeting with folks there. I am thinking more about how I might invest in using EC2 in my new lab to augment a smaller (local) cluster purchase. - Jason Stajich

There's also the work by DE Shaw which I wrote about last year http://mndoci.com/blog... - Deepak Singh

@Deepak thanks for that link, that seems an interesting real time application - Abhishek Tiwari

"how Hadoop is being used to process the results from High-Energy Physics experiments" - Abhishek Tiwari from Bookmarklet

"Technology luminaries pick the chips that changed the world— and their lives" - Abhishek Tiwari from Bookmarklet

Gordon Moore, Vinod Khosla, Jeff Hawkins and many others pick their favorite chips, featuring a whole generation of processors - Abhishek Tiwari

A biosystem, or biological system, is a group of molecules that interact in a biological system. One type of biosystem is a biological pathway, which can consist of interacting genes, proteins, and small molecules. Another type of biosystem is a disease, which can involve components such as genes, biomarkers, and drugs. - Abhishek Tiwari from Bookmarklet

It often is hand wavy, especially since many of the advocates make it more complex than it needs to be. It's one reason I admire Jon so much. I actually grasp complex subjects when filtered by him - Deepak Singh

Jeanette Wing's article was very nice as well, http://tinyurl.com/dyrkjv. Her examples are nice, especially for people with no to little background in computing (making dinner on sunday night and eating for the next few days is caching :) - Rajarshi Guha

Check out the new podcast as well. That's the second one in the series and really got me thinking. http://bit.ly/ByZKS - Deepak Singh

I have used REDFly [ http://redfly.ccr.buffalo.edu/... ] and FlyTF [ http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/genomes... ] to get TFBS info for some DMel genes. I am not sure if these resources are integrated with UCSC Genome Browser. - Khader Shameer

This page http://rana.lbl.gov/eisen... includes a program called TFEM "Transcription Factor Expectation Maximization, an algorithm for detecting DNA regulatory motifs by incorperating positional trends in information content." I don't know anything about it, but I would think they must have used it for Drosophila. If you're interested I could go down the hall and ask some time... - Ruchira S. Datta

seriously though, making evolution and neuroscience understandable and non-threatening to non-scientists is a big f***ing challenge - Christopher Harris

I said it's not _just_ about education and explaining how things work: there's an existential dimension that I think scientists are prone to ignoring - Christopher Harris

This event will be webcast live at 3:00 pm ET on 4/28 from this link: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interac.... - Abhishek Tiwari from Bookmarklet

For instance, if you want to earch for the gene "alpha synuclein" using the GenBank ID CR457058. The link structure should be this one http://www.novoseek.com/AccessP... - novoseek

"This is where the basic distortion of science occurs: when an individual scientist with a new idea has to expose it to the scrutiny of "intermediary" peers before having the money to test it and believe it or not themselves. The simple cure for this is no-questions-asked baseline funding, perhaps proportional to average salary, recognizing that society has already made a huge investment of trust and money in scientists via their education, hiring, promotion and tenure[2]." - Björn Brembs from Bookmarklet

Got the author on to friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/dickgor... - Björn Brembs

"The bovine HapMap data show that cattle have undergone a rapid recent decrease in effective population size from a very large ancestral population, possibly due to bottlenecks associated with domestication, selection, and breed formation," University of Missouri researcher Jerry Taylor, who was part of the Bovine HapMap team, said in a statement. "The recent decline in diversity is sufficiently rapid that loss of diversity should be of concern to animal breeders." - Iddo Friedberg from Bookmarklet

Overall, indicine cattle, humped cattle found in South Asia and East Africa, had higher SNP diversity than taurine cattle, humpless cattle found in Europe, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. For instance, Brahman cattle had a SNP every 285 base pairs — the highest level of genetic diversity observed in cattle breeds so far. Holstein and Angus breeds had about half as many SNPs. - Iddo Friedberg