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Archive for March, 2009

Financial advice

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

No doubt most of you have seen the back-and-forth between The Daily Show and CNBC, especially Jim Cramer (who was foolish enough to take the bait). If you haven't seen ... Read more..

GIA Talk

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Last week was the first Genome Informatics Alliance meeting. It was a meeting of second-generation sequence vendors, users, data repositories, and other high-throughput endeavors, e.g., high-energy physics and Google, to ... Read more..

Unnatural selection

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In a recent series of posts (Embryo screening should be mandatory, Allowing children to be born with severe disease is morally equivalent to child abuse, round 2, and Arguments against ... Read more..

Blogorama

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

For you RSS readers that do not visit the site, I thought I would point out a few of the blogs I have recently added to the Blogroll list on ... Read more..

Data intensive science

Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

There is an interesting article, Beyond the Data Deluge, on Science that discusses how various scientific disciplines are facing massive increases in data generation rates and how they are dealing ... Read more..

Listen to the DNA

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Well, it may not be as catchy a song title as "Listen to the Flower People", but the folks at DNA rainbow, after having gone to the effort of converting ... Read more..

Lobbyists and open access

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

It seems Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) is up to his old tricks again, doing the bidding of the large publication houses and introducing H.R. 801, the misleadingly named Fair Copyright ... Read more..

Pharmaceutical research meets the cathedral or the bazaar?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 6 Comments »

Or does it meet neither? Recently, Merck announced that it would be putting a vast database of highly consistent data about the biology of disease, as well as software tools ... Read more..

Harold Varmus on The Daily Show

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of the NIH, collaborator with The Genome Center, and now comedy straight man, was on The Daily Show last night. In the interview, he ... Read more..

The bailouts, in perspective

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

I hesitated to post this last week because it is not directly related to the majority of content on this blog but I decided the financial situation has enough to ... Read more..