Archive for May, 2014

UPDATE: Encrypt the Web Report: Who’s Doing What | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sunday, May 11th, 2014

#Encrypt the Web Report: Who’s Doing What. Useful report on the various #internetservices
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-whos-doing-what

Eaters Assume Crunchy Foods Have Fewer Calories – Scientific American

Sunday, May 11th, 2014

Eaters Assume Crunchy Foods Have Fewer #Calories: maybe jello is the most satisfying way to #diet
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/crunchy-food-thought-lower-calorie HT @noahwg #health

The Rise and Fall of the Dominant Few | Grantome

Sunday, May 11th, 2014

http://grantome.com/blog/rise-fall-dominant-few

Nature Genetics calls for data analysis papers

Friday, May 9th, 2014

Call for… analysis papers: nice description of hypothesis generation v. validation & 3 types of #network robustness
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n3/full/ng.2914.html

Call for data analysis papers
Nature Genetics 46, 213 (2014) doi:10.1038/ng.2914Published online 26 February 2014
Deadline expired but maybe still relevant…

Neat article on the wisdom of little crowds

Friday, May 9th, 2014

The Wisdom of (Little) #Crowds: Correlated decision making dumbs down mobs. Evidence from modeling & #swarm expts.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/22/the-wisdom-of-little-crowds

BigData MSc

Friday, May 9th, 2014

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/computerscience/prospectivestudents/postgraduatetaught/bigdata.aspx

Another VAT!

Friday, May 9th, 2014

Variant Association Tools for Quality Control and Analysis of Large-Scale Sequence and Genotyping Array Data

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(14)00176-1

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http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/vat

Phevor Combines Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Accurate Identification of Disease-Causing Alleles in Single Individuals and Small Nuclear Families

Friday, May 9th, 2014

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(14)00112-8

Nat. Biotech News & Views: Tumor signatures in the blood

Friday, May 9th, 2014

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n5/full/nbt.2897.html?WT.ec_id=NBT-201405

Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

Thursday, May 8th, 2014

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/329/5987/75.abs