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xp = experience. cores are a university thing. They are like mini specialized businesses inside the university shared across the university. for example if yo

xp = experience. cores are a university thing. They are like mini specialized businesses inside the university shared across the university. for example if you are in a lab and need a single cell sequencing but the equipment is too expensive or you lack the expertise, if your university(or another university) has a "single cell sequencing core" with equipment you can use it for a small fee. example of a core search: https://search.eagle-i.net/central/#results?q=rnai&t=http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core%23CoreLaboratory&of=score https://search.eagle-i.net/central/#results?q=rnai&t=http://...

sandworm101 8y ago
Aside from the formal lab concepts, universities once were a place where a vast range of experts are on hand to help each other. If the physicist needed a marine biologist [1] or a medical doctor a statistician, they could find each other. That included trades people like glass blowers and machinists (engineers). But the narrowing of fields and the stovepiping of budgets means these links are becoming more difficult to maintain. [1] I know of one astronomer who's work was threatened by rare/protected birds nesting near his equipment. Sometimes it is good to work in an organization with in-house ornithologists. 'That's not dark matter. It's bats flying by your telescope every night."
- Fomite 8y ago
  I'm an epidemiologist, and on my campus today I interacted with a statistician, a cell biologist, a veterinarian, two computer scientists, and send a Python programming question to our HPC group.
  - sandworm101 8y ago
    While I was at UBC, one day the theatre department called the animal research people. They wanted to borrow a lamb for a play. They submitted the appropriate live animal "experimentation". Someone on the committee did say something about not using animals for "entertainment purposes" but in the end they got the animal in exchange for tickets

sandworm101 8y ago

Aside from the formal lab concepts, universities once were a place where a vast range of experts are on hand to help each other. If the physicist needed a marine biologist [1] or a medical doctor a statistician, they could find each other. That included trades people like glass blowers and machinists (engineers). But the narrowing of fields and the stovepiping of budgets means these links are becoming more difficult to maintain. [1] I know of one astronomer who's work was threatened by rare/protected birds nesting near his equipment. Sometimes it is good to work in an organization with in-house ornithologists. 'That's not dark matter. It's bats flying by your telescope every night."

Fomite 8y ago
I'm an epidemiologist, and on my campus today I interacted with a statistician, a cell biologist, a veterinarian, two computer scientists, and send a Python programming question to our HPC group.
- sandworm101 8y ago
  While I was at UBC, one day the theatre department called the animal research people. They wanted to borrow a lamb for a play. They submitted the appropriate live animal "experimentation". Someone on the committee did say something about not using animals for "entertainment purposes" but in the end they got the animal in exchange for tickets