I am back with another edition of titbits that I have noticed here and there
Googling your health
This post on the Google blog should not be ignored. For one, it is written by Adam Bosworth, and the fact that he is involved with the project means that Google takes the subject of healthcare seriously. Ever since Larry Page talked about it some time ago, I’ve been waiting for something more public, and this looks like the start of something that has potential. Of course, unless they get the right people from the healthcare industry and academia involved, and make sure that all issues of privacy are addressed up front, I am not sure they can be really successful.
Harnessing the web for protein structure prediction
Once upon a time, my online tagline used to be “I’m in the protein structure prediction business”. Those days are behind me, but I still follow the field and Pierre brings to attention a French effort that uses distributed computing (will this be the next trend after all the meta servers that show up in CASP) for structure prediction. I am also a long time user of CHARMM and just by putting those words in the description of the project, the authors pretty much had me. I am going to replace Folding@home, which has been my default screen saver for a long time.
Nascent celebrates a birthday
Everyone’s favorite life science reporter, and king of the Google Earth-disease mashup, celebrates his first blog anniversary
Google, content and teaching
Jean-Claude Bradley has a wonderful post about how he has used Google’s custom search to enhance his various organic chemistry e-learning efforts.
Discovering “omes”
Another Sandra Porter instant classic. There is no place like Ome
Talk about really bad news
The FDA reported this piece of bad news for Pfizer. More from In the Pipeline
Bio::Blogs #6 is out
The conference edition via Duncan at Nodalpoint
Technorati Tags: Bio::Blogs, Google, Protein Structure Prediction, CHARMM, Blogs, E-Learning, Omics, Pharma
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Thanks for the link to my post about using Google Co-op for organic chemistry. This is a really powerful, simple and free tool that could be applied in so many ways to cheminformatics projects.
Thanks for the link to my post about using Google Co-op for organic chemistry. This is a really powerful, simple and free tool that could be applied in so many ways to cheminformatics projects.
I completely agree. I am increasingly optimistic that by the turn of the decade, a significant portion of the community will be adopting such methods.
I completely agree. I am increasingly optimistic that by the turn of the decade, a significant portion of the community will be adopting such methods.
Thanks for the info on Google co-op (both of you)…i had no idea that it could be used for chemistry purposes.
Thanks for the info on Google co-op (both of you)…i had no idea that it could be used for chemistry purposes.
Just wanted to mention our patient activist and physician oriented Health Search startup “CureHunter“. One of our main design goals is to bring patients and physicians closer to the research so they can make the most educated decisions possible and truly begin to practice Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) in real-time.
…without giving anyone your medical records!
Please check it out if you get the chance.
Just wanted to mention our patient activist and physician oriented Health Search startup “CureHunter“. One of our main design goals is to bring patients and physicians closer to the research so they can make the most educated decisions possible and truly begin to practice Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) in real-time.
…without giving anyone your medical records!
Please check it out if you get the chance.
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[...] Adam Bosworth has been mentioned in these parts before, and based on a recent post on the official Google blog, the company is very serious about providing solutions for healthcare, notably the ability to search all the health-related information that is out there. One of the questions on Adam’s (and everyone else’s) mind is quality. Search is fine, but quality search in healthcare is essential. Google wants to organize the world’s information. With healthcare, they are facing a tough challenge, one with a social ticket attached to it. I am sure no one at Google wants someone to take the wrong medical decision based on incorrect information that they derived from Google. [...]