Monthly Archives: November 2008
Does my sequence have a new homolog?
Image via WikipediaHere’s an interesting service I discovered during a snoop on the web. PDBalert is a web-based system that alerts users as soon as a pdb structure with homology to a protein of interest becomes available. Users can upload protein sequences of interest and ever Wednesday, when the PDB releases new [...]
Context and puzzles revisited
Some time ago I wrote about how more data does not necessarily mean you get slower, channeling Jeff Jonas’ analogy to jigsaw puzzles. He extends some of those thoughts in a recent post on how obervations are accumulated into context. As usual I find a lot of parallels with the practice of data driven [...]
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Identity-fication
As some of you know, I am a fan of Larry Lessig’s presentation style. One of the many speakers who has been insired by that style is Dick Hardt, but I am not talking about his presentation style, but rather his content. Dick is into identity, what he calls identity 2.0. I [...]
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Infographics are the new black
First there was the wonderful word cloud for my talk at Virginia Tech. Then Pawel unleashes his visual CV. I wonder how else we can push visualization where it is not just eye candy, but actually a creative that has utility. What other areas can we use visual infographics to generate value? [...]
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All about aging (or not)