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"This Challenge requests that Solvers implement a particular database meant for managing the ordering of DNA sequences. The database schema, table create scripts and some strongly recommended interface designs are all laid out in exquisite detail. The Seeker who creates the most complete solution will be awarded the full award if all of the stated requirements are met." - Deepak Singh from Bookmarklet

Another similar challenge here: http://ff.im/d4eY1 - François Dongier

that's gotta be wrong. 3.2b bases * 2 bits per base / 8 bits per byte /1024 bytes per kb / 1024 kb per Mb = 762.9 Mb - Chris Miller

even the exome doesn't makes sense: 18k genes * 9 avg exons * 170 bp per avg exon * 2 bits per base / 8 bits per byte /1024 bytes per kb / 1024 kb per Mb = 6.5Mb - Chris Miller

I'm thinking of trying to simulate covering a talk by simultaneously watching the same video, e.g. this one by Gary Bader: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Follow link above to a Doodle date finding poll - Michael Kuhn from Bookmarklet

*bump* I've created a Wave with those that entered their times on Doodle. Could you guys please check and vote for a talk? - Michael Kuhn

The basic structure for this part iii of the "what would X look like if invented today" series is in the mind map at http://www.mindmeister.com/3016825... , with background via http://friendfeed.com/search... . Main points: More flexibility in the models of funding, more attention to technological shifts in the way people (including scientists) communicate. Such has also been argued at http://ff.im/9GGRn and http://2020science.org/2009... . - Daniel Mietchen

On the role of rules in creativity and innovation: http://ff.im/cRs7K . - Daniel Mietchen

I like "The online home of Cameron Neylon's brain". Wish my brain had a home too. - Martin Fenner

Yes, its not meant to be comprehensive just a useful space that's available. Got two projects on it so far though. In terms of dashboards and hubs its actually a function that Wave might usefully serve at some point. I've had a similar problem in the lab - too many disparate services, all good at what they do but trying to get people to use them all effectively together is a problem - Cameron Neylon

An excellent analysis of 'ClimateGate'. - Michael R. Bernstein

pretty! - Danny Ayers

In The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the Internet will not destroy news organizations. He says that Google working in cooperation with publishers of newspapers and magazines can help bring about a business model to share ad revenue from searches. - Javed Alam

"For the past twelve years my research team has been using all the brain research tools at its disposal, from functional MRI to electro- and magneto-encephalography and even electrodes inserted deep in the human brain, to shed light on the brain mechanisms of consciousness. I am now happy to report that we have acquired a good working hypothesis. In experiment after experiment, we have seen the same signatures of consciousness: physiological markers that all, simultaneously, show a massive change when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information (say a word, a digit or a sound)."

"What we mean by being conscious of a certain piece of information is that it has reached a level of processing in the brain where it can be shared." - François Dongier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... now reads: "A shoehorn, sometimes called shoespoon, is a tool that allows the user to put on a shoe more easily." - Tudor Bosman

Image slightly NSFW, but only if your boss has no sense of humor at all. - Tudor Bosman

"The world's largest particle accelerator is officially back in business, scientists in charge of it announced today. Over the weekend, physicists began circulating beams of protons around the 27-kilometre ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The tests bring the giant machine closer than ever to high-energy collisions that physicists hope will lead to the discovery of new particles. "The first three days of operation have been an enormous success," Steve Myers, CERN's director for accelerators, told reporters at a press conference about the status of the machine. "We've shown the LHC is in superb condition."" - Spaceweaver from Bookmarklet

Finally....! But then, let us remember also the pyramids weren't built in just a couple of years :-) - Spaceweaver

soon google and bing will deliver whatever history we want or someone will use their apis to do it. - Bob Boynton

We aren't. We are over on friendfeed :-) - Cameron Neylon from fftogo

Mais il semble finalement OK. Interview à lire. - Jérôme Flipo from iPhone

This is totally amazing! Need to get my hands on one of these programs and render! - Björn Brembs

Some of them look organic. - Andrew Lang

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Toma! - sistema428

"This morning, Google is making a slight update to Wave to help users unclog their inbox from public waves. Previously, you could see public waves in your inbox, which was fairly annoying. Now for a wave to appear in your inbox, you need to “follow” the wave." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"The Internet grew out of an idea to connect various and disparate sources of data, delivering to researchers around the globe unprecedented access to information via their computer screens. As e-Science evolves alongside Web 2.0, however, some are pushing for a fundamental change in the way the Internet catalogues and organizes data to make it more readily available to the growing number of interdisciplinary and highly specialized researchers who spend their working hours nearly entirely online and who tend to collaborate online. Whereas this is not a new argument—the idea of a more intuitive "Semantic Web" has been kicked around for years—it has gotten a fresh set of legs thanks to the recent funding of a software development tool kit expected to better connect researchers with the information they seek." - Wildcat from Bookmarklet

Rather than offering researchers a simple keyword search across a single database that returns information in pieces, the semantic approach proposes to create a more intelligent Internet infrastructure that can assign meaning to the concepts being searched and even to some degree have an understanding of the researcher's intent. Using ontologies, which are formal representations of... more... - Wildcat

A semantic interface would allow a researcher to visit a single research site, describe the information required, and then let ontology and semantics take care of the rest. "The Semantic Web has it's own query language that takes advantage of meanings of concepts and their relationships," Narock says. "You ask your question at very high level, and it takes care of filling in the details... more... - Wildcat

I am inclined to submit a proposal for a session on Open Science. If any of you plan to go there or wish to contribute to the session, let me know. - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Still, if any of you would like to join the session remotely (or perhaps even physically), please let us know. - Daniel Mietchen

"We describe the system architecture and template design of "Scratchpads", a data-publishing framework for groups of people to create their own social networks supporting natural history science. Scratchpads cater to the particular needs of individual research communities through a common database and system architecture. This is flexible and scalable enough to support multiple networks, each with its own choice of features, visual design, and constituent data. Our data model supports web services on standardised data elements that might be used by related initiatives such as GBIF and the Encyclopedia of Life. A Scratchpad allows users to organise data around user-defined or imported ontologies, including biological classifications. Automated semantic annotation and indexing is applied to all content, allowing users to navigate intuitively and curate diverse biological data, including content drawn from third party resources. A system of archiving citable pages allows stable referencing with unique identifiers and provides credit to contributors through normal citation processes." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

modules mentioned: leftandright http://drupal.org/project... biblio http://drupal.org/project... cck http://drupal.org/project/cck og http://drupal.org/project/og image http://drupal.org/project... imagex http://drupal.org/project... creativecommons_lite http://drupal.org/project... simplenews http://drupal.org/project... wysiwyg... more... - Mike Chelen

pretty slick - Jean-Claude Bradley

"For those who want to take a glimpse at where science and scientific discourse are going, take a look at some of the papers at this workshop" - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

several of the links are broken - this is the correct link to the Mons slides http://esw.w3.org/topic... - Jean-Claude Bradley

A clear and concise presentation, highly recommended - Wildcat from Bookmarklet