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by bbgm 17y ago
The raw data (the original image files), while mostly transient today, is massive. At some of the big genome centers they are in the double digit TB's of data processing per day
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by bbgm 17y ago
While not genome centric (it's genotype-based) Promethease is one example http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease 23andme's software does a pretty good job. You can also use the UCSC genome browser although it probably as a learning
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by bbgm 17y ago
"Were". The Seattle biotech industry is in shambles. Icos is gone, Rosetta is gone, Zymogenetics has scaled down, and so on. The debris is pretty visible. The non-profit research side is going great guns though.
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by bbgm 17y ago
In the life sciences provenance is as important as reproducibility, and you can use software systems to manage provenance. The paper requirement will go away over time. Even the FDA, which required paper in the past, is moving to an elect
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by bbgm 17y ago
There was talk a year or so ago of calling next-gen, "now" gen. My completely unsubstantiated guess is that the PacBio's of the world will end up being called "third gen"
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A well done scientific hoax called "water marbles"(chemspider.com)
9 points by bbgm 17y ago|2 comments
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Architecting for the cloud - Best practices (whitepaper)(aws.typepad.com)
3 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
Checked "Yes, not very well" cause I do play keyboards, albeit so so. However, if programming synthesizers and sound design counts then I could go up one level.
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Tipping my toes in mongodb with ruby (common SNPs between two populations)(saaientist.blogspot.com)
3 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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Sanger adds two cancer genomes(massgenomics.org)
1 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
Would you fire someone for teaching that the earth is at the center of the universe? Because ID pretty much falls into the same category. What people should be doing is being upfront about the reasons for firing rather than trying to hide
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by bbgm 17y ago
Sorry bout that. Didn't notice the additional character.
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MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool (AKA Dean and Ghemawat strike back)(cacm.acm.org)
44 points by bbgm 17y ago|5 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
Yep. Which is why on European trips, when possible I travel by train. More efficient, more comfortable and on the right routes, you get to enjoy some good scenery too. I miss trains in the US, both for local transit and long distance tra
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by bbgm 17y ago
I've wasted 2 months of distributed computing time on just bad assumptions made by mistakes I made, so as noted below, in the big picture, that's a relatively minor loss. Does it set back science. Of course, but is it catastrophic, no. As
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by bbgm 17y ago
I have an Ableton driven studio with oodles of softsynths. I'd say the difference is a factor of 10 at the least even with higher end software. What you do end up spending on is some of the hardware you can't avoid (quality audio interfac
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by bbgm 17y ago
Exactly. And that's often how fraud gets found. You are trying to build on someones research and some of the assumptions aren't working or you can't baseline the work. That usually leads to trying to reproduce the original work and voila .
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by bbgm 17y ago
Aron Pilhofer at DocumentCloud also comes from the NY Times and their CloudCrowd project is also great for this purpose http://wiki.github.com/documentcloud/cloud-crowd
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The Life Scientists at FriendFeed: 2009 summary(nsaunders.wordpress.com)
1 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
When I joined my group pretty much everyone was either using a blackberry (the majority) or Windows Mobile phones. Today the majority are iPhones. Thats for a group that has grown a lot since then too, so one could easily argue that the o
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Networking: The last bastion of mainframe computing(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
26 points by bbgm 17y ago|1 comments
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Introducing the Oracle-SimpleDB Hybrid(rooksfury.tumblr.com)
1 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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2010: The year of the microslice server(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
37 points by bbgm 17y ago|15 comments
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Drop and Compute(blog.openwetware.org)
3 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
Number of efforts across the board, including chemistry and biology. The extreme side of the "open science" world is Open Notebook Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Notebook_Science In general you are required to put enough into
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by bbgm 17y ago
That's the part that resonated with me. Am working with a couple of people on a document and that very "feature" drives me nuts and makes it difficult to keep track of where responses might have been made in the context of a wave. You cou
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by bbgm 17y ago
Your points are well taken, but many of us get information from trusted blog sources and Wikipedia, and hopefully we are discerning enough to be able to look at multiple sources, sometimes to engage in discussion, etc. Now I like reading go
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by bbgm 17y ago
Your points are well taken, but many of us get information from trusted blog sources and Wikipedia, and hopefully we are discerning enough to be able to look at multiple sources, sometimes to engage in discussion, etc. Now I like reading go
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by bbgm 17y ago
That I don't disagree with per se. The tech transfer process is something that definitely needs to be modified. ibridge networks has a model that I find quite interesting and is along the lines of making pools of technology available tha
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by bbgm 17y ago
Being a little more general, what model would you propose for funding research? With exceptions (e.g. the Gates foundation) the vast majority of research funding is taxpayer funded, and replacing that source is pretty much impossible. Now

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