Archive for July, 2013

PAR-11-203: Predictive Multiscale Models for Biomedical, Biological, Behavioral, Environmental and Clinical Research (Interagency U01)

Saturday, July 27th, 2013

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-203.html
interesting mechanism that seems to involve NIH, DOE, NSF, &c

Computational Biology Primers in Nature Biotechnology & PLOS CB

Saturday, July 27th, 2013

http://www.liacs.nl/~hoogeboo/mcb/nature_primer.html

Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts? – John Villasenor – The Atlantic

Friday, July 26th, 2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/could-the-government-get-a-search-warrant-for-your-thoughts/278111/

Cancer Risk Increases With Height – NYTimes.com

Friday, July 26th, 2013

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/cancer-risk-increases-with-height/?ref=health&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

An Information-Theoretic Machine Learning Approach to Expression QTL Analysis

Friday, July 26th, 2013

An Information-Theoretic Machine Learning Approach to Expression QTL Analysis Tao Huang, Yu-Dong Cai
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0067899

PLOS Collections: A Primer on Regression Methods for Decoding cis-Regulatory Logic

Friday, July 26th, 2013

http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000269;jsessionid=350928BBFCCD473BFDAD1BEDC700AAAC

Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/not-even-silicon-valley-escapes-history/277824/

Canary Home Security Learns Your Daily Habits, Monitors Environmental Quality | Apartment Therapy

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/smart-home-security-learns-your-daily-habits-192527

Cancer therapy: Checkpoint Charlie | The Economist

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

MT @hlatim: Checkpoint Charlie | Economist http://bit.ly/137nZLO checkpoint inhibitors for lymphocyte proliferation, which combats #cancer

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21578986-new-class-drugs-being-deployed-struggle-against-cancer-checkpoint

Microsoft crisis: Stock plunging, Ballmer under attack.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

MT @ChristianMesser: $MSFT crisis: Stock plunging, Ballmer under attack. http://bit.ly/1382z12 ~35=>~32 on 7/19, ~60 all-time high ~’00
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/07/22/microsoft_crisis_stock_plunging_ballmer_under_attack.html