Two foci for Genomics England are cancer and rare, inherited diseases – not neuro, cardio, &c.
https://twitter.com/timjph/status/353047985808084993
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6a1f001e-e48a-11e2-a74d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Y840CSnr
NYer: Slow ideas – surgical anesthesia v antiseptics: people talking to people spread innovation http://bit.ly/1c11yRZ via @davidwcovington
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/29/130729fa_fact_gawande
MT @KromerBigData: #DataScience in @nytimes http://bit.ly/13mPhxS McKinsey says ~60% more in field needed for ~500K new jobs in 5yrs
QT:”As an academic field, it cuts across disciplines, with courses in statistics, analytics, computer science and math, coupled with the specialty a student wants to analyze, from patterns in marine life to historical texts.”
QT:”Universities can hardly turn out data scientists fast enough. To meet demand from employers, the United States will need to increase the number of graduates with skills handling large amounts of data by as much as 60 percent, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute. There will be almost half a million jobs in five years, and a shortage of up to 190,000 qualified data scientists, plus a need for 1.5 million executives and support staff who have an understanding of data.”
speedtest results (in Mb/s downloading and then uploading) comparing DSL & Cable
mb16 =>
860mbg11=>Verizon-DSL : 6.4, .9
860mbg11=>TW-Cable : 6.4, 5.2
FD4CN=>Verizon-DSL : 5.1, .8
77c021=>TW-Cable : 8.8, 5.1
verizon.net/speedoptimizer
then
verizon.net/speedtest
Lister… Ecker
MT @BiomedRevon: Global #epigenomic reconfiguration during mammalian #brain development http://bit.ly/16lbboa cortex methylation over time
A “map showing how methylation changes in the frontal cortex over time. During the first two years of life… a wave of methylation alters the DNA in genes ”
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/07/05/science.1237905