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by gravelc 10y ago
I'm a bioinformatician, but haven't really pondered doing this on my own DNA too much. Wouldn't be terribly complicated to sequence and analyse your entire genome though. Provided you could purify your DNA, sequencing wouldn
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Louisiana Tech University patents file folders, then goes trolling(arstechnica.com)
7 points by gravelc 10y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 10y ago
Wondering if this is snake oil sold to a small unsuspecting regional city in Queensland, or the pattern- and behavior-recognition colossus the laughably-named iOmniscient company makes it out to be. http://www.iomniscient.com&#x2
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Fears over trial of '1984' surveillance system that anticipates antisocial acts(theguardian.com)
2 points by gravelc 10y ago|1 comments
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by gravelc 10y ago
I'm still trying to work out whether only dual channel RAM means 64GB RAM is the limit, or do different mobo chipsets support actually support quad-channel? Kind of a deal breaker (for bioinformatics work) if I can't go over 100G
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by gravelc 10y ago
In a perfect world where food distribution isn't affected by things like spoilage, lack of transport infrastructure, politics, trade barriers, diversion of food crops to biofuels, monopolies, war etc. etc., we may have an oversupply.
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by gravelc 10y ago
5-8C would lead to mass starvation. Our agricultural systems are built on extremely well adapted crop varieties for the regions they grow in. The lead-in time for generation of new crop varieties is very long (even with genetic modificatio
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by gravelc 10y ago
Don't need a xeon for more than 64GB of ram. I have a 5820K with 128 GB ram on an X99 mobo. Runs very well for it's price, though a little power hungry.
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by gravelc 10y ago
My Seiko SARY57 mechanical (automatic) watch. Beautifully made, looks great, does what it's supposed to do, not too expensive. Simply can't ask for more design-wise in my opinion. https://www.amazon.com/PRESAGE-me
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by gravelc 10y ago
I'm seeing significant performance increases in my app (small RNA aligner). Haven't profiled yet, so not sure where the gains are coming from, but happy all the same.
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by gravelc 10y ago
Worth a read for some background on this: http://www.popsci.com.au/science/the-house-science-committee...
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by gravelc 10y ago
Like a lot of other tech-obsessed people, I jumped on the Apple Watch bandwagon when it hit the market, having not worn a watch since my teen years. After about 6 months, I ditched it due to it being a bit useless at actually telling the t
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by gravelc 10y ago
We had 'core' promises and 'non-core' promises here in Australia. How politicians use language is quite instructive.
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by gravelc 10y ago
Have to agree with this; I recently went on a big distro downloading binge, as I was sure I was missing out on something that was more modern, shinier, and had sexy features I didn't know I needed 'till I tried them. I ended up de
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by gravelc 10y ago
I agree - we're a long long way off being able to accurately predict the impacts of genetic changes, particularly given effects like pleiotrophy. We still don't even really understand why a tiny worm with around 1000 cells (C. ele
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by gravelc 10y ago
He's not 'hacking his own genes' though, is he? There's no modification of his germ cells, nor is there stable incorporation of the exogenous material into the genome of the affected cells - more just transient expressi
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by gravelc 10y ago
Much, much more frightening than website blocking in Australia is this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-05/telco-industry-pushes-... Our esteemed government told us universal metadata collection was for fightin
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Gene-silencing spray lets us modify plants without changing DNA(newscientist.com)
2 points by gravelc 10y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 10y ago
I don't know about too many others in the bioinformatics field, but I reckon I write about 80% of my code in Python and 20% in R. R for stats and plotting; Python for wrangling data. Having said that, they're the languages I lea
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by gravelc 10y ago
Mother in law has had it for about 15 years (so has lived longer than expected). Currently has implanted electrodes in the brain, which fixes some issues and leads to others. Recovery is unlikely at this stage, but even preventing the dise