Archive for March, 2014

Michael Lewis, Flash Boys, and 60 Minutes

Monday, March 31st, 2014

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101537874

‘Electronic skin’ equipped with memory : Nature News & Comment

Monday, March 31st, 2014

http://www.nature.com/news/electronic-skin-equipped-with-memory-1.14952

This synthetic yeast genome may reignite controversy regarding function of non-coding region

Monday, March 31st, 2014

Deletion of introns and other intergenic regions

Total Synthesis of a Functional Designer Eukaryotic Chromosome

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/03/26/science.1249252

http://syntheticyeast.org/

Visualizing Which Countries People Are Trying To Get Away From, And Where They’re Going | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Monday, March 31st, 2014

@bffo : From @SFUBeedieDean | Software used in genetics used 2 viz global migration flows. Pretty cool.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028211/visualized/visualizing-which-countries-people-are-trying-to-get-away-from-and-where-theyre-g … CC/ @markgerstein

.@bffo @SFUBeedieDean Great example of #genomics ideas applied in another discipline!
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028211/visualized/visualizing-which-countries-people-are-trying-to-get-away-from-and-where-theyre-g … #viz

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028211/visualized/visualizing-which-countries-people-are-trying-to-get-away-from-and-where-theyre-g

Give the Data to the People – NYTimes.com

Monday, March 31st, 2014

Give the Data to the People. Great piece on the value of #opendata by @hmkyale. YODA may the data force be with you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/opinion/give-the-data-to-the-people.html

Journalist request: An article on cloud-based informatics for biocompare.com

Monday, March 31st, 2014

article on cloud computing :

http://www.biocompare.com/Editorial-Articles/158629-Bioinformatics-Infastructure-Got-You-Down-Head-to-the-Cloud-Rent-a-Supercomputer/

Looping Back to Leap Forward: Transcription Enters a New Era

Monday, March 31st, 2014

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867414002013#

What Happens When Amazon and Google Go to War? — Daily Intelligencer

Monday, March 31st, 2014

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/what-happens-when-amazon-and-google-go-to-war.html?mid=twitter_nymag

Your Fate? Thank Your Ancestors – NYTimes.com

Sunday, March 30th, 2014

Your ancestors, your Fate. #Surname analysis shows less social mobility than expected (eg Agarwal v Garcia MDs)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/your-fate-thank-your-ancestors

Butter Is Back – NYTimes.com

Sunday, March 30th, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/opinion/bittman-butter-is-back.html