Monthly Archives: May 2006

Is it enough to study individual molecules?

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 31, 2006
One could easily expand this question to encompass all life scientists, or perhaps all scientists, but in essence that is the question that Alex Palazzo tries to answer. In his opinion, biologists tend to be too molecule centric. That is certainly true, but his very doubt is a sign of the times. Back in [...]
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Multiscale modeling of MscL

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 31, 2006
Yesterday, I got my latest content update from the Biophysical journal for my keyword search for CHARMM. The first article that caught my eyes was a paper by Qiang Cui and co-workers, a paper titled A finite element framework for studying the mechanical response of macromolecules: Application to the gating of the mechanosensitive channel [...]
Posted in Life Science, Physical Science, Review, Science | 1 Comment

IBM in the crosshairs

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 27, 2006
Robert X. Cringely has written an article on the malaise at IBM (which I found by way of deal architect). The line in the article that jumped out at me was the following Unfortunately, I see IBM as a place run by salespeople and project managers with a sell and install mentality, even in services. [...]
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Buying hardware?

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 26, 2006
I would hate to be making IT decisions these days, or trying to decide what platforms to support for any forthcoming software (wait, I think I do need to do that). Recent changes by HPC vendors complicate an already confusing hardware landscape. Dell recently anounced that it will start selling four-way servers with [...]
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Nodalpoint on grid computing for bioinformatics

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 26, 2006
In prior articles on grid computing, I have voiced my concerns on the potential applications of grid computing for pharma projects. Nodalpoint has an article on grid computing for life science that references articles by Tim Bray from Sun and Jim Gray from Microsoft. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, [...]
Posted in Admin, BioIT, Computing, Informatics, Infotech, Innovation, Life Science, Science, Technology | 3 Comments

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