PolITiGenomics

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief

Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Independent Lens has an interesting piece about copyright, music, and the nature of creativity entitled Copyright Criminals. If you get a chance to watch it, you should. Read more..

My talk at AGBT

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

Several people have asked me to post my slides from AGBT. Given the type of slides I prepare, I thought that might be less than useful, so I recorded my ... Read more..

Against Intellectual Monopoly

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in IT, politics | 1 Comment »

Two Washington University in St. Louis professors, Michele Boldrin and David Levine, have a new book about the current state of intellectual property entitled Against Intellectual Monopoly. You ... Read more..

Lessig on Colbert

Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in IT, politics | 2 Comments »

Lawrence Lessig was on The Colbert Report last Thursday. Enjoy the fireworks. .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cLawrence LessigColbert at ChristmasColbert Christmas ... Read more..

Justice served?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

Despite talk of the power of all those small donors, it seems, not surprisingly, that big money has not lost all influence in Washington. President-elect Obama has selected one of ... Read more..

CC bioinformatics

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Thanks to the beauty of Creative Commons, the folks over at CLC bio have posted a version of my next-generation sequencing informatics table that adds a new metric, Yield per ... Read more..

Using the next-generation sequencing statistics table

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Since posting the next-generation sequencing informatics statistics table I have received several requests asking if they could reproduce the table in one format or another. The answer is yes, as ... Read more..

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics |

In recent years, the term "bully pulpit" has erroneously become conflated with the modern meaning of the word bully, someone who harasses or intimidates. As such, people see the term ...

Open access under attack

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 8 Comments »

Since Congress voted to encourage NIH to adopt an open access policy for scholarly publications that resulted from research it funded, the journal publishers have lobbied Congress to reverse it. ... Read more..

reCAPTCHA on comments

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in charity, genomics, IT, politics | No Comments »

I've been getting a lot of spam comments on the blog so I added a CAPTCHA to comment posting. Specifically, I have added CAPTCHA's from the reCAPTCHA project which ... Read more..