Monthly Archives: October 2006

Things I noticed #11

Todays edition of Things I Noticed is brought to you from the HUPO congress in Long Beach, CA. We kick off with a bit of an ode to open access. The new PLoS badge in the sidebar only re-affirms bbgm’s support of open access. PLoS ONE is almost here As Pedro announced the other day, [...]
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I just “protein-ed” him

Imagine an excited postdoc telling his/her PI that they had just sent of a bunch of protein structures to a collaborator using a phone. That scenario is part of the goal for Greg Quinn and others at the mobile data visualization laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. A couple of years ago, [...]
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Google custom search

Google announced a brand new custom search engine today. I have one set up for bioinformatics/computational biology related searches at my favorite sites. Still a work in progress, but feel free to give it a try. It’s also visible on my sidebar Technorati Tags: Google custom search, Google, Search, Blog powered by performancing firefox
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BioIT needs to re-invent itself on the fly

Microsoft just announced a whole new bunch of new participants for its BioIT alliance and a second proof-of-concept project, this one focused on biomarkers. The announcement got me thinking about the future of BioIT, at least in the medium to long term. While the volume of data available today seems unmanageable, it is nothing compared [...]
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Things I noticed #10

I can’t believe that I actually made it to edition #10 of Things I Noticed, but here we are. It was actually quite a busy week, but most of what I wanted to bring to attention are things I want to write some additional commentary on, so keep watching this space. The “new” postgenomic Postgenomic.com has [...]
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