Archive for July, 2013

VIT under-graduate Bioinformatics Program

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

undergrad program in bioinformatics
http://www.vit.ac.in/sbst/btech_bioinfo.asp
Vellore undergrad program in bioinformatics

BOSTON, July 12, 2013: Big Data From Alzheimer’s Disease Whole Genome Sequencing Will Be Available To Researchers Due To Novel Global Research Database | PRNewswire | Rock Hill Herald Online

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/07/12/5016198/big-data-from-alzheimers-disease.html

Risking it all – Pakistan – YouTube

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

Gripping #documentary about a truly treacherous #road, the #Lowari pass http://bit.ly/1bii2EL via @youtube @omarali50

Unlikely Partners, Freeing Chimps From the Lab – NYTimes.com

Monday, July 15th, 2013

Unlikely partners (@JaneGoodallInst @NIHDirector) in agreement for now, freeing chimps from the lab via @charrier http://bit.ly/12kUYR5
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/science/unlikely-partners-freeing-chimps-from-the-lab.html?pagewanted=all

Tile

Monday, July 15th, 2013

Very interesting….
http://www.thetileapp.com/

Publishing in Brazil: Folding papers | The Economist

Monday, July 15th, 2013

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21581741-middle-class-embraces-online-media-newspapers-are-struggling-folding-papers?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/foldingpapers

Smart Clothes—A Wearable Air Quality Sensor « NIH Director’s Blog

Monday, July 15th, 2013

Next step for a #QuantifiedSelf: New sensor gives real time personal air quality assessments #NIH http://bit.ly/1beCjuQ via @NIHDirector
http://directorsblog.nih.gov/smart-clothes-a-wearable-air-quality-sensor/

good description of data cubes

Sunday, July 14th, 2013

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa140038(v=office.10).aspx

BBC News: Gene therapy trial ‘cures children’

Sunday, July 14th, 2013

Gene therapy trial ‘cures children’
A disease which robs children of the ability to walk and talk has been cured by pioneering gene therapy to correct errors in their DNA, say doctors.
Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23269778

Biology must develop its own big-data systems : Nature News & Comment

Sunday, July 14th, 2013

Does this say much beyond obvious
platitudes? In any case, it does highlight an issue of the moment.
http://www.nature.com/news/biology-must-develop-its-own-big-data-systems-1.13299