Itching to mutagenize
I’ve been thinking back to my bio-tinkering days. I used to work on protease inhibitors called serpins, serine protease inhibitors. Serine proteases are e...
Category: Strategy
It’s the filtering, stupid
I’ve been struggling for a while around a very big concept – how to bring scientific publishing to the modern web world of social, collaborative cre...
At least I like some of the predictions RWW made for 2009
Yup. Yup. And yup. “One word son: filters.” 2009 Web Predictions – ReadWriteWeb. – Apps that do filtering, inferring and recommendation ...
A wander through personal genomics
So, I’ve been talking about trends in biology that I think are significant (maybe because I’ve only started following biology again in the past year...
Hm. Just noticed changes in Google Search
Hm. Just noticed changes in Google SearchOriginally uploaded by schickr When was the last time Google messed with their search page? Seems like in this past wee...
“Taste good, sequence it” and “Look cute, sequence it.”
When I first started working in science, sequencing was just beginning to be a ‘kit’ science, where anyone could buy a kit and sequence. It was long...
Random walks through synthetic biology
Synthetic biology is the design and building of novel organisms or biological systems. Sounds amazing, but we have been doing it to some degree for millenia, th...
Eye opening: Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web report
When I see stuff like this I feel ashamed for ever thinking Africa’s use of mobile was any ‘less’ sophisticated than Europe or Asia. I keep re...
Gah. Why are folks trying to be digital in an analog world?
Call me old-fashioned, but I want some analog-computing being done with biological systems. I’m never comfortable with digital thinking with biological ma...
Swimming the sea of knowledge (the Concept Web?)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to … what’s out there, though mostly focused ...