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Playing me some poker. Losing.
RT @timjph: What does a terabase genome centre get up to in a year? First Sanger Institute annual report now online: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Info...
Heading to Alexandra Palace for Jay-Z's poetry reading.
1869: Nature #1 featured "plan for timing clock signals to Cambridge and back over 7000 miles of wire" http://www.nature.com/nature... First internet?!
RT @CambMacDev: Remember, remember, the 7th of November - as it's CambMacDev time! 11am at Indigo, see you all there!
@jandot Cool - let me know how it goes. Would love to give #23andme a try.
The new Magic Mouse from Apple is pretty awesome. A thousand times better than the old Mighty, which admittedly isn't saying much.
Towards a science data platform #1: easy, flexible retrieval and reuse above all else. #scidata
Why do I see a website in the near future :) - Deepak Singh
Surely easy deposition has to come first though? - Cameron Neylon
Perhaps. Ideally all reads and writes would be created equal, but in reality a reasonable amount of heavy lifting is required at one end or the other. Given that data is usually written once and retrieved many times, I wonder if it's easier for those already generating and working with the information to jump through some deposition hoops once, rather than everyone being forced to do it at retrieval, time after time. - Matt Wood
Agreed that access needs to be easy for users but put barriers in front of depositors and you will only get specific types of data (mostly big and well funded). But I don't know how to square the circle from easy to deposit blob to usefully described blob on a service. - Cameron Neylon
Cameron, the barriers in front of depositors are cultural or systemic. The barriers in front of retrievers are often technical. But yes, we need to address both problems, but technical challenges of retrieval are real, since we aren't retrieving small data sets any more - Deepak Singh
The most enthusiastic depositors are those whose peer-reviewed publication is tied to deposition. Get key journals to require deposition of data + metadata prior to publication, under a Public Domain or Attribution-required license, and the rest will follow. - Andrew Perry
Deepak, absolutely agree - just was uncomfortable with "above all else". Tell you what, I'll let you and @mza get on with the technical challenges while I worry about the social ones. Division of labour and all that. @Andrew - this is absolutely true, but journals will not do this (and I agree with the logic on this) until they get a very strong steer from the community that this is... more... - Cameron Neylon
@cameronneylon it's ridiculous to think you can separate the technical challenges from the social ones, one cannot be understood (and solved!) without the other. Trying to tackle the technical challenges without solving the social ones is like building a car without having the blue print. Trying to tackle the social challenges without the technical ones is like building a rocket ship for the year 2150 and hoping someone will somehow magically solve the technical issues tomorrow. - Alexander Griekspoor
Alexander, you won't get any argument from me on that, but Matt did start this manifesto with "there are no technical reasons...why an open data platform for science couldn't excel". In my view the technical problems are largely soluble with clear pathways for development, and I don't have the detailed knowledge to make a big contribution at the coalface. The social problems are much larger and require a more multipronged attack - which is directed by but not defined by the current technical capability. - Cameron Neylon
What are the "social" issues? I'm confused by the use of the word in this context. Are we talking about cultural changes, such as acceptance of a more "open data" world, coercing people into using public repositories and so on? Or is this social as in social network? If the latter, I don't see the relevance to what Matt is discussing. - Neil Saunders
Maybe cultural issues is better. But basically the fact that we have an entire social edifice built around control and secrecy driven by the need to publish. Fundamentally the problem that we need to rebuild the reward systems so that people actively take advantage of the potential of available technology. So yes, cultural rather than social perhaps, but I do think social networks or... more... - Cameron Neylon
@ninajansen Good luck!
@arfon is on a roll! Scaling Galaxy Zoo with SQS: http://arfon.org/scaling... #aws
From coffee bean to carbon - excellent interactive visualisation of cell size and scale: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content...
RT @mndoci: Converted #scidata manifesto from @mza into a blog post http://mndoci.com/2009...
Towards a science data platform #5: be effortless to do the right thing: provenance capture, reproducibility, portability. #scidata
Towards a science data platform #4: Well designed, high quality programming interfaces are a prerequisite. #scidata
@annakcroft Have you looked at packaging it for Amazon's EC2 service? Cheap, easy way to get your data out and into the hands of others.
"Those responsible for data management have failed" Need for sci data platforms grows ever stronger. Who will step up? http://www.politigenomics.com/2009...
@timjph Nice interview in 'The Scientist'!
Now we're cooking. RT @zerojinx: Back of envelope calculations estimate 30 EB (yes, exabytes!) raw data from our throughput next year.
@mndoci Just my thoughts, although I'm sure others have thought it too. : )
@setitesuk Just warming up with some (pretty unstructured!) thoughts here on Twitter to start with.
Towards a science data platform #3: scalability and speed are not mutually exclusive. #scidata
Towards a science data platform #2: a laser sharp focus on scientific productivity and progress. #scidata
I'm starting a manifesto. There are no technical, political or funding reasons why an open data platform for science couldn't excel #scidata
@zerojinx Hello petabyte?
Curiously enough, R.E.M's 'Monster' sounds the least dated of much of their last decades output. #top100albums
@jandot Welcome back!
@dullhunk Welcome to Cambridge! Coffee when you're settled?
RT @arfon: A first look at Amazon's RDS: http://arfon.org/a-first... #AWS
Very cool stuff from Amazon this morning: super high memory nodes, lower cost EC2 and a supremely awesome relational database service. #aws
Mozilla Raindrop looks pretty cool: A better Wave? http://labs.mozilla.com/raindro...
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