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by adenadel 11y ago
The author makes the comparison between the cost of 23andme's genotyping arrays and the cost of whole genome sequencing (WGS), but the comparison with whole exome sequencing (WES) is probably more appropriate. For the unfamiliar, exome
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by adenadel 11y ago
The prior in this case isn't for people in general, it is for this person.
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by adenadel 11y ago
This assumes that people 50% of people have Parkinson's and that the people are chosen randomly from the population. Unfortunately neither of those things are true.
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by adenadel 11y ago
That's because there are hundreds of thousands or millions of draws occurring. You need to account for what's called the multiple testing problem. [1] Some ways to do this are to control the family-wise error rate (FWER) or the fa
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by adenadel 11y ago
I think that the comparison is towards the alternative path in academia. For example, I completed a master's degree and got an internship doing bioinformatics as part of the degree. My pay during the internship was more than one of my
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General Assembly and Google Team Up to Crank Out an Army of Android Developers(techcrunch.com)
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Biomedical superstars are signing on with Google(nature.com)
70 points by adenadel 11y ago|51 comments
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by adenadel 11y ago
There is no concept of "genome security" because you leave your genome everywhere you've ever been. If someone wants your genome and is willing to spend the money to sequence it, they've got it. Let's estimate 6pg o
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Biomedical superstars are signing on with Google(nature.com)
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23andMe's Triumph – And the Long Road Ahead(forbes.com)
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by adenadel 11y ago
Here's a link to the library lab website http://lajollalibrary.org/your-library/bio-lab/
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The latest DIY biotech hot spot? The local library(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by adenadel 11y ago|1 comments
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Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes Needs to Stop Complaining and Answer Questions(forbes.com)
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by adenadel 11y ago
To be fair about having only one currently licensed physician, they do have Bill Foege on the board and he is a world renowned physician credited with coming up with the strategy that eradicated small pox. Just because he is retired doesn&#
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by adenadel 11y ago
A few weeks ago I submitted this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213547 about one of Peter Thiel's biotech investments and the top comment asked "How does someone very intelligent like Peter Thiel m
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What Will Alphabet Be When It Grows Up?(technologyreview.com)
2 points by adenadel 11y ago|1 comments
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In the article they mentioned a previous record setting drive: "As readers might recall, a new record was established last month by one enthusiastic Model S owner, who drove a painful 24-miles-per hour to make it a stunning 452.8 miles
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Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Autonomous in 3(youtube.com)
220 points by adenadel 11y ago|219 comments
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My Lunch with Shkreli: What We Should Learn from Pharma's Latest Monster(forbes.com)
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by adenadel 11y ago
It seems like the west coast isn't getting much love. I understand staying out of the Bay Area, but UW, UCSD etc. seem like they would be good places to visit.
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by adenadel 11y ago
Direct link to the article... http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541276/deep-learning-ma...
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Peter Thiel Explains Biotech Investing Rationale: Get Rid of Randomness(technologyreview.com)
44 points by adenadel 11y ago|32 comments
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Why is a t-test necessary given that we have the z-test?(stats.stackexchange.com)
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by adenadel 11y ago
Current understanding is that they are two different diseases, but this paper hints that Alheimer's could possibly be caused by the misfolded prion present in CJD. The mechanism of CJD is fairly well understood while the mechanism(s) o
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The 30-Year-Old CEO Conjuring Drug Companies from Thin Air(forbes.com)
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Peter Thiel Backs Biotech “Unicorn” Fighting Cancer Stem Cells(technologyreview.com)
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by adenadel 11y ago
If you found this interview interesting, there is a longer interview that goes into most of the same topics as well as several others here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
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Drug Test (2003)(outsideonline.com)
7 points by adenadel 11y ago|0 comments