Monthly Archives: November 2007
And you thought consumer genomics was a crowded space
Lets assume I am someone remotely important for a journalist to interview me and ask the following question.
“What life science story from 2007 has surprised you?”
This is an easier question to answer than one might think. Like many others, my gut feeling was that next-generation sequencing was the next big thing, but broader adoption, especially [...]
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The Blue Brain
IBM has always had a knack for killer research. Today’s exhibit: Blue Brain, the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
The project is as ambitious as it sounds. The goal is to mimic the behavior of the brain down to the [...]
Posted in Computing, Innovation, Life Science 6 Comments
Science continues to get more social
2collab, a service from Elsevier, which I received a demo of earlier this week, went live today, adding another player to the scientific social networking space. Richard Akerman has an excellent review over on his blog. As he notes, at this point of time 2collab can be compared to social bookmarking services like [...]
Posted in Publishing, Science, Social Networking, Software & Internet 10 Comments
OSINT and pharma intelligence
In a recent Bio-IT World article, Jim Golden (CTO at SAIC) has written a very interesting piece entitled OSINT and the Pharmaceutical Enterprise. I suspect people outside the US are not aware of OSINT, but it stands for Open Source Intelligence, and has rather grim origins. In the aftermath of 9/11, it was [...]
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Software development is never easy