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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20)

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:20:39 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20): Bob Dylan (8) Toots and The Maytals (5) Paul Simon...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:27:40 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13): Bob Dylan (24) The Hackensaw Boys (15) Grateful...

“The prospects are that laboratories, hospitals and...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:05:14 -0500

“The prospects are that laboratories, hospitals and doctors from all over the world will send bacterial DNA sequences electronically to a server for further analysis. The researchers expect up to 100,000 DNA sequences from bacteria to be analysed each year in Denmark alone, while the figure may reach approx. half a billion a year worldwide.”

[Photo: S. aureus bacteria escaping destruction by human white blood cells. (Credit: NIAID/RML)]

The Myth of Clean Coal “…although it might make...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:34:59 -0500

The Myth of Clean Coal

“…although it might make little economic or scientific sense, the political logic behind clean coal is overwhelming. Coal is mined in some politically potent states—Illinois, Montana, West Virginia, Wyoming—and the coal industry spends millions on lobbying.

The end result of the debate is all too likely to resemble Congress’s corn-based ethanol mandates: legislation that employs appealing buzzwords to justify subsidies to a politically favored constituency—while actually worsening the problem it seeks to solve.”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:52:19 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6): John Barry (31) Bob Dylan (15) Grateful Dead (10)...

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:32:12 -0500

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal

The Venn of Life

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:33:20 -0500

If I had more time, I would do many more things with my life: Take a yoga class. Home-brew...

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:23:51 -0500

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:34:43 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29): Massive Attack (8) Bob Dylan (8) Old Crow Medicine...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:09:45 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22): Paul Simon (26) Bob Dylan (24) Grateful Dead (19)...

“The sedge has withered from the lake, and no birds...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:46:50 -0500

“The sedge has withered from the lake,

and no birds sing.”

Oh, Bird. We hardly knew ye.

The original Mandelbrot, a 2D object, has been translated into a...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:48:23 -0500

The original Mandelbrot, a 2D object, has been translated into a 3D object called the Mandelbulb. The results are breathtaking.

Should we stop sequencing genomes? Sharon Begley of Newsweek...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:40:00 -0500

Should we stop sequencing genomes?

Sharon Begley of Newsweek says it’s high time we stop, and turn all of our attention to determining the function of the unknown genes that we’ve already sequenced. Apparently, it was the recent publication of the cucumber sequence that ended it for her. (Why the cucumber, and not the turkey, say? No idea.)

I don’t completely disagree with Ms. Begley; however, it is important to note that functional annotation gets a huge boost from homology (we can transfer function from a known gene to unknown genes that are homologous). Homology, in turn gets a huge boost from…having lots of genomes to analyze. So, in one sense, putting the brakes on genome sequencing is likely to impede functional annotation. In addition, we have a lot to learn about how biological systems work - seeing the forest instead of the trees. Having more genomes in hand is akin to bringing that forest into focus.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:14:40 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15): Paul Simon (46) Bob Dylan (19) Grateful Dead...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:09:22 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8): Paul Simon (6) Grateful Dead (5) Bob Dylan...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:07:01 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1): Bob Dylan (22) The Allman Brothers Band (14) Paul...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded at least $92...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:13:41 -0400

The National Institutes of Health has awarded at least $92 million for 194 bioinformatics-related grants in fiscal year 2009 under the Obama Administration’s $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (Scitable via twitter)

The Human Body Is Built for Distance - NYTimes.com

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:46:50 -0400

The Human Body Is Built for Distance - NYTimes.com

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:38:42 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25): Bob Dylan (12) Massive Attack (9) The Allman...

neilfws: Genome analysis changes diagnosis A critically ill...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:16:05 -0400

neilfws:

Genome analysis changes diagnosis

A critically ill Turkish boy has had his life saved after scientists were able to read his genome quickly and work out that he had a wrong diagnosis.