The Life Scientists

I'm interested in joining the testing. Need to agree on criteria for comparison before starting, though. - Daniel Mietchen

Sorry if this is slightly tangential to the discussion, but I was imagining a new kind of social network for publication of research results here: http://virtualchrisleonard.co.uk/blog... - Chris Leonard

http://www.321download.com/LastFre... - Eric Jain

You all are so awesome. I also got some offline downloads. Thanks a million Eric, Stephen and Arseni, in particular! - Heather

The 3M/Littman 3200 Stethoscope with Zargis Cardioscan is our 2009 Innovation of the Year because of its brilliant simplicity. Detecting heart murmurs can now be done with far greater accuracy by doctors everywhere--from your family internist to those in remote ares bringing treatment to those who need it most. So simple, in fact, that we were able to operate it here in the office with the same diagnostic power as any doctor, with the help of Zargis CEO John Kallassy. See it--and hear it--in action, above. - Ami Iida

"Web-based technologies coupled with a drive for improved communication between scientists have resulted in the proliferation of scientific opinion, data and knowledge at an ever-increasing rate. The increasing array of chemistry-related computer-based resources now available provides chemists with a direct path to the discovery of information, once previously accessed via library services and limited to commercial and costly resources. We propose that preclinical absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity data as well as pharmacokinetic properties from studies published in the literature (which use animal or human tissues in vitro or from in vivo studies) are precompetitive in nature and should be freely available on the web. This could be made possible by curating the literature and patents, data donations from pharmaceutical companies and by expanding the currently freely available ChemSpider database of over 21 million molecules with physicochemical properties" - Attila Csordas from Bookmarklet

Looked through the NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection yet? - Donnie Berkholz

" The QP-SURF program at UT Southwestern is an intensive summer research training experience which leads to an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of basic answers to current questions at the interface of quantitative science and basic biomedical research. Fellows spend ten weeks (beginning June 7, 2010 through August 13, 2010) pursuing individual research projects in the laboratories of UT Southwestern Graduate School faculty members. Fellows gain experience in modern research techniques, and have a chance to plan and execute an experimental strategy to answer a scientific question. The program introduces students to the sorts of projects encountered during postgraduate research training and leads to an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of basic answers to current questions in the biological sciences. At the end of the summer, fellows present their research in a poster session. In addition to... more... - Mickey Schafer

Hi, Mickey--thank you so much. Oh, we definitely include items for undergraduates. I really try to list as many scholarships and academic prizes in the health sciences at all levels as possible. Got to get kids interested in science and medicine! And I have a diversity.underrepresented category, too. Therefore, your suggestion was perfect and much appreciated. I have listed it here--http://www.scangrants.com/grant... - Hope Leman

p.s. Total Destruction of Lungs in Ukraine Fatal H1N1 Cases http://www.recombinomics.com/News... - Ami Iida

to be continued ...... Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Ukraine - update 2 http://www.who.int/csr... - Ami Iida

they should have sequenced the money tree first :) (obviously a flippant comment) - Frank

If we are going to centralize this as infrastructure we need to take a strong stance on the build quality and compatibility of these databases so we can bring down costs... - Cameron Neylon

Like the look of Decision Tree. Is it the hardware that needs improving or the software? - Neil Swainston

Darn you, flash games! :) - Allyson Lister

148,932 on 3rd attempt... Just a few more hours practice and I should make it into the top 10 :-) - Eric Jain

"In his new book, “Reading in the Brain,” neuroscientist S. Dehaene describes his quest to understand an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on a page (or a screen) into language. (...) What I am proposing is that the human brain is a much more constrained organ than we think, and that it places strong limits on the range of possible cultural forms. (...)Through its cultural inventions, humanity constantly searched for specific niches in the brain, wherever there is a space of plasticity that can be exploited to “recycle” a brain area and put it to a novel use. Reading, mathematics, tool use, music, religious systems - all might be viewed as instances of cortical recycling.(...) the fact that young children are more competent than we think. Learning is not “the furnishing of the mind's white paper,” as John Locke said. Even for an activity as novel as reading, we do not learn from scratch, but by minimally changing our existing brain circuits, capitalizing on their pre-existing structure." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"In the case of reading, very concretely, as I explain in the book, we now have plenty of evidence that the whole-language approach has nothing to do with how our visual system recognizes written words – our brain never relies on the overall contours of words, rather it decomposes all of its letters and graphemes in parallel, subliminally and at a high speed, thus giving us an illusion... more... - Amira

Thorisson, G.A. Accreditation and attribution in data sharing. Nature Biotechnology 27, 984 - 985 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

+ 1 :-) - Claudia Koltzenburg

I tried some searches on google and google scholar without finding it, and I'm generally quite good at this. So good luck with that. - Donnie Berkholz

Thanks! Donnie, that was my experience, too. I'll pass on the link, Michael - it looks pretty good. Alun, I'd expect that the heterogeneity of dead bacteria would make such an analysis difficult, if not impossible. - Heather

Now that I think about it a little more, 454 would be best, as I want to re-sequence a genome. - Alejandro Montenegro

We use Mogene in the United States for 454 services - Steven

"Being able to effectively use modern gadgets is necessary in today’s ‘‘high-tech’’ science but to be enslaved and misled by them is not desirable". - Alejandro Montenegro

I haven´t use it yet, but it claims to include a curated and unique collection of transcription factor binding sites from prokaryotes. http://prodoric.tu-bs.de/ - Nicolas Palopoli

EcoCYC is good, but only for E. coli http://biocyc.org/ECOLI... - Nick Loman

Very sad. - Nils Reinton