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by bbgm 17y ago
That's in a perfect world. The first step is to get the data out there. They we can start wondering about structure and presentation. It takes a long time to build a data infrastructure, but you should stop people who have the skills and
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by bbgm 17y ago
I am not denying the complexity or the potential risks, but I also believe that this is the kind of information people should understand, and can take to a genetic counselor and discuss. The information is well curated, updated, you get yo
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by bbgm 17y ago
Conversely one could argue that having access to your SNP data, accompanied by some good learning material and software (and 23andme do a pretty good job here) is the best way for people to get a better understanding of this kind of data. Y
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Five years of the AWS blog(aws.typepad.com)
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by bbgm 17y ago
I haven't seen the Android one, but there are a couple of EC2 management options for the iPhone that I am aware of Ylastic's console is designed to be iPhone ready http://ylastic.com/ And the one I use is this one from David Kavanagh ht
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by bbgm 17y ago
Thanks. Will do
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Ask HN: Changing usernames
17 points by bbgm 17y ago|7 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
With exceptions, you will not get a job doing algo development or hard core informatics without a PhD. You do have the choice of doing a CS degree and working in the life science space (there is a dearth of good application developers)
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One (database) size does not fit all(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
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by bbgm 17y ago
In fact, in the life sciences, the back and forth is getting more common, and will increasingly get so as the models for research, esp in large scale biology change. On the CS side there are any number of examples as well.
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by bbgm 17y ago
and that process is fairly routine at most national labs and supercomputing facilities. Not highly available, but not sure these data need to be.
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by bbgm 17y ago
At the high school level you don't really know what you'll be doing 15 years later? You should have a complete grounding, so that you can make those decisions and not have to play catch up later on. I am not saying probability and stats a
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by bbgm 17y ago
Because calculus is beautiful, and if you are even remotely interested in the physical sciences, absolutely necessary. I can't even imagine a high school curriculum without calculus. It's what made some of the decisions I took about grad sc
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by bbgm 17y ago
Ditto 3. The life science community and the non-life science folks I interact with are as active as ever.
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by bbgm 17y ago
OSX as my primary. Everything else (AMIs, VMs) is Ubuntu
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by bbgm 17y ago
Anecdotal evidence for sure, but a lot of my friends, especially those with kids are thinking about heading back. In the past they felt that they would be giving too much career-wise if they did so, but with that barrier going away all the
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by bbgm 17y ago
No Russ Altman either.
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by bbgm 17y ago
I haven't bought into Wave yet, although it has more to do with the current UI than anything else. In addition to what's mentioned above, there are plugins for LaTeX, for rendering molecules, etc which make collaborative editing very power
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by bbgm 17y ago
> PS: The only way a scientist is overwhelmed with information is when they need to do something by hand. It's hard to guess how a scientist would like to collect less information. Worst case you ignore it because you can't process it y
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Running a grid inside a cloud for processing space data(isgtw.org)
1 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
And I have the opposite opinion. Ideology = a lack of flexibility and a very closed mind, neither of which is a constructive state and achieves little in the long run.
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by bbgm 17y ago
And they have the option of finding out if job #2 was worse than job #1. In slavery you don't have that option either.
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Short-read genotyping with Hadoop and Amazon EC2(bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net)
1 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
I don't know much about what PACER includes and what exactly is covered by Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis, but Altlaw ( http://altlaw.org ) is a "free, full-text, searchable database of U.S. case law", and I've heard it being mentioned in the cont
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by bbgm 17y ago
Or Zurich
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Bioinformatics AMIs and Hadoop apps on AWS(aws.typepad.com)
3 points by bbgm 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 17y ago
Number of airlines, Virgin for example. I believe Alaska either has it or will have it soon
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by bbgm 17y ago
Computational biology is still a very young field, and even a lot of biologists don't quite appreciate the computational aspects. However as Leroy Hood says, biology is fast becoming a digital science and our education around biology has t
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by bbgm 17y ago
That's a rather sweeping generalization. I know way more people interested in the inner workings of biological processes than in algorithm design (myself included). It depends on whom you hang out with :)
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by bbgm 17y ago
Don't disagree with that assertion, but we have to realize that doctors need technology too. In an age where imaging, more molecular and genetic oriented diagnostics, etc are going to play a more important role, you need the tech in place,

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