Archive for July, 2013

The Surprising Origins of Evolutionary Complexity: Scientific American

Saturday, July 20th, 2013

Carl Zimmer
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-surprising-origins-of-evolutionary-complexity&print=true

What’s Inside: Red Wine | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

Saturday, July 20th, 2013

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/st_whatsinside_redwine/

Centralising cloud app notifications might be the next big thing | TechCrunch

Saturday, July 20th, 2013

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/centralising-cloud-app-notifications-might-be-the-next-big-thing/

Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley, with little to show for it. | MIT Technology Review

Saturday, July 20th, 2013

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516506/silicon-valley-cant-be-copied
MT @mkaplanPMP: Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley. http://bit.ly/1dKZeuR NJ was 1st attempt

The Exomes of the NCI-60 Panel: A Genomic Resource for Cancer Biology and Systems Pharmacology

Saturday, July 20th, 2013

The Exomes of the NCI-60 Panel: A Genomic Resource for Cancer Biology and Systems Pharmacology
Cancer Res July 15, 2013 73:4372-4382; Published OnlineFirst July 15, 2013; http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/73/14/4372.long

Why Web Reviewers Make Up Bad Things – NYTimes.com

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

Why Web Reviewers Make Up Bad Things: From 1K customers, 15 reviews & 1 bad #review http://bit.ly/15IxPqc via @zenan_liu @nytimes

QT:

The other conclusion is that behavior online is too easily taken as a mirror of reality when it is nothing of the sort. What seems to be the voice of the masses is the voice of a self-appointed few, magnified and distorted.

“For every thousand customers, only about 15 write these reviews — and one of them is writing negative reviews of products he hasn’t bought,” Mr. Simester said. “How surprised should we be that one out of a thousand people do something we have trouble understanding?” ”

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/why-web-reviewers-make-up-bad-things/?smid=tw-nytimes

Visokio – A revolution on your desktop | Visokio

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

Looks like it click right into out database and do some powerful visualizations… assume Excel can do most of this as well.
http://www.visokio.com/

Massively parallel in vivo enhancer assay reveals that highly local features determine the cis-regulatory function of ChIP-seq peaks

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/29/11952

Why Web Reviewers Make Up Bad Things – NYTimes.com

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/why-web-reviewers-make-up-bad-things/?smid=tw-nytimes

Bioinformatics and Genomics — Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences – PhD in bioinformatics

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

IBIOS Bioinformatics and Genomics Program – PhD in bioinformatics at PSU http://www.huck.psu.edu/education/bioinformatics-and-genomics