Monthly Archives: December 2006

A new model for CASP

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 29, 2006
The CASP “competition” (don’t let the organizers tell you otherwise) over the years has been one of the biggest players in the protein structure prediction world. It single handedly launched David Baker into a new stratosphere some years ago when his ab initio folding program proved to be significantly better than other methods (The quantum [...]
Posted in Informatics, Life Science, Modeling & Simulation, Omics | 8 Comments

Digg-ing science

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 27, 2006
Last night, I was listening to a episode of TalkCrunch where Mike Arrington , Robert Scoble and Om Malik were having a discussion on technology trends and startups. One of the subjects that they covered towards the end of the podcast was Digg and the impact it might have on traditional media (it was [...]
Posted in Admin, Blog, Science | 7 Comments

An open scientific future

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 25, 2006
I have been meaning to write a commentary on a couple of posts on the open future of science at 3 Quarks Daily for some time now. What better time than the end of the 2006, a year in which open science has become quite the recurring theme in these parts. Bill Hooker in [...]
Posted in Admin, Open Science, Science, Search, Software & Internet | 7 Comments

Things I noticed #17

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 22, 2006
I have not been too good with my roundup lately. I am actually considering a change in format early in the new year (but I am going to keep that close to my chest, since I have been known to come up with grandiose ideas in the past). So this week we have!!! The [...]
Posted in Admin, Innovation, Life Science, Modeling & Simulation, Software & Internet, Weekly Roundup | 4 Comments

PLoS One – The implications

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 20, 2006
This blog supports open access, the creative commons license and efforts like PLoS One. The challenge facing the community now is simple – given the ability to use modern technology to develop a new paradigm for publishing, can we engage the rest of the scientific community to participate in this scientific conversation? PLoS [...]
Posted in Admin, Innovation, Open Science, Science, Software & Internet | 7 Comments

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