Jean-Claude Bradley

From Aaron Swartz - Deepak

nice hacks, thanks, hope it works for any version of WP - Alexey

by Christina K. Pikas, PhD student @ University of Maryland - Enro via Bookmarklet

@Andrew - tons of cliques (maximal complete subgraph of 3 or more nodes), tried also LS sets, Lambda sets, k-cores..... many of the standard cohesive subgroups in Wasserman and Faust - there too many so not informative. Unlike the typical sparse network, this network is a hairball. - Christina Pikas

@D0r0th34 - I'd love to, even had sketched it out as a diss idea, but *really* want to stay away from gender and all that, and it's a slippery slope. @Bora - not sure where to link it from, maybe start a generic page on what we know about science blogs? - Christina Pikas

a linkfest of responses by some medbloggers, sciencebloggers and political bloggers - Bora Zivkovic

Where have you been in Europe already? - Chris Lasher

Eva ... lol. One reason for going in May, although looks like I might be in Europe for conferences in March ... hmmm - Deepak

Ricardo, if you make it here, just holler - Deepak

A shortage of donated brain tissue is hampering research into diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and dementia, a team of British scientists warned yesterday (Jan. 6). About 10,000 brains are used for scientific research in the UK. But researchers say that they need thousands more fresh organs from donors with both diseased and healthy brains. There are currently only 20 brains to study autism and 30 brains to research Alzheimer's in the country. "There's a great opportunity to facilitate important research to discover cures and treatments which would go unfulfilled if we don't increase the number of brains available for research," said Paul Francis, a neurochemist at King's College London, at a press conference in London. - Alexey via Bookmarklet

current HIV therapies not optimal bc not accessible to all people, cannot eradicate from body, and drug resistance. - Shirley Wu

Also, Tat is one of those miserable proteins (small, charged, ?globular) that will *interact* with pretty much anything. Whether the interaction means anything is another matter. The NCBI Gene entry for HIV-1 Tat lists well over a thousand protein-Tat interactions... - Bill Hooker

I didn't really catch it hence the question mark. It was definitely Tat interacts with something, which doesn't really help - Shirley Wu

"“R is a real demonstration of the power of collaboration, and I don’t think you could construct something like this any other way,” Mr. Ihaka said. “We could have chosen to be commercial, and we would have sold five copies of the software.”" - Ricardo Vidal via Bookmarklet

Open Source / Free Software FTW! - Michael R. Bernstein

Is the field of bioinformatics in trouble? I ask this due to two disturbing trends. The first is the misuse of bioinformatics for "dubious" purposes. The second is, has bioinformatics itself reached a wall of stagnation due in part to disciplinary insularity and resultant inadequate collaboration with its medical counterpart? - Paulo Nuin

That blog post is all over the place - a lot of incoherent ranting, I don't see the main message. - Neil Saunders

I had to read three times to understand it. Found it on Reddit programming and it has 10 votes there. - Paulo Nuin

cloning of a bull; super-fast fungal spores; fast repopulation from oceanic reserves; pain is easier to bear when paired up. - Bora Zivkovic

Great summary! Reads like a tweet. - Neil Saunders

LOL! Perhaps that's how press releases should be written - on twitter - Bora Zivkovic