Brief commentary on App.net, the new social network “that aspires beyond chat and ads”
I’ve been meaning to comment on App.net, a new for-fee social networking service. To me, it seems that App.net is trying to build an alternative social we...
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Finally got around to reading Sterling’s “An Essay on the New Aesthetic”
“That is my thesis; that’s why I think this matters. When I left the room at the SXSW “New Aesthetic” panel, this is what concerned me most. I left with t...
Microbiome sequencing offers hope for diagnostics : Nature News & Comment
“Jonathan Eisen [@phylogenomics], a microbiologist at University of California, Davis, is worried that microbiome research will eventually encounter the s...
Crowd-Sourcing Drug Discovery
“The first challenge that OSDD’s cyber-community assigned itself was to glean more information from the M. tuberculosis genome. It was sequenced in ...
The Visionary
“Seeking to spur drug development, Stephen Friend has launched a daring series of initiatives to make biomedical research more open and effective.” ...
China’s Sequencing Powerhouse Comes of Age
“With new sequencing centers in Europe and the United States, BGI hopes its growing clout will help deliver the benefits promised by genomics—and revenue ...
Fortify your poop – Transfaunation
As you know, I’m always looking for practical uses of microbes. One that I stumbled upon a long while back was “transfaunation”, or, seeding o...
Research at Janelia: Life on the farm : Nature News & Comment
“But what happens next? Can Janelia Farm do ‘great science’ during the next 5 to 10 years? Will it pass Rubin’s deletion test? Can it re...
Teach me: Does Hadoop signal the end of the database?
I am still a novice when it comes to the technical underpinnings of databases and Hadoop. So, I thought it might be useful if I just asked if my thought on the ...
Outbreak Detectives Embrace the Genome Era: Science
“Genomic epidemiologists say, it’s time to use the technique to track microbial movements on a global scale. By routinely sequencing bacterial sampl...