Monthly Archives: February 2008

Science Commons, Open Access … and affiliate marketing!!!

In association with SPARC and ARL, the good folk at Science Commons have released (under a CC-BY-NC license) a whitepaper to help scientists comply with the NIH mandate to archive their work on PubMed Central. The white paper is a good read for any scientist doing any publishing, especially the section on compliance options [...]
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Wikipedia, the missing manual

Recently, I got a chance to get my hands on Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. I had never read one of the O’Reilly Missing Manuals series before, and this is not likely to be the last one, especially if the rest of the series is anything like the Wikipedia book. By the end of [...]
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Ligand docking memories

While I was at Accelrys one of the things that I tried to push was an increased use of force fields, MD and more physical approaches for molecular recognition problems like ligand docking. It’s always good to see some of those thoughts and early proofs-of-concept become reality Technorati Tags: CHARMM, Ligand Docking, Flexible Docking
Posted in Modeling & Simulation, Self | 4 Comments

Your personal health: Trusera ready for lift off

Trusera, a Seattle-based social health site is getting ready to come out of closed beta. The site will move to an Open Beta next Tuesday at the Health 2.0 conference. That should give the site an influx of users which will make the offering, centered around people sharing their health related experiences and [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Social Networking, Software & Internet, Your personal health | 4 Comments

Why should you get a free 23andme test?

Loic LeMeur posed the question on Seesmic as part of a giveaway for one 23andme genotyping test. I happened to be on at the time and looks like I made the 12 finalists. After watching all 12, there is little chance that I’ll make the cut. But you never know Technorati [...]
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