Archive for July, 2014

Retina MacBook Pro gets a processor bump across the line – TUAW

Thursday, July 31st, 2014

Speed bump for Retina macbook pros…
http://m.tuaw.com/2014/07/29/retina-macbook-pro-gets-a-processor-bump-across-the-line

Article: New technique could boost internet speeds tenfold

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

http://www.gizmag.com/random-linear-network-coding/33038/

Everything I Need

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

http://dharmacomics.com/gallery/everything-i-need

Pacbio MCF-7 transscriptome dataset

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

BLOG:
http://blog.pacificbiosciences.com/2013/12/data-release-human-mcf-7-transcriptome.html

DATASETS:
http://datasets.pacb.com.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/IsoSeqHumanMCF7Transcriptome/list.html

less than 10 percent of the human genome is functional

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

~8%

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004525

Google’s New Moonshot Project: the Human Body – WSJ

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-to-collect-data-to-define-healthy-human-1406246214

‘Kardashian index’ in science

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

A great article discussing the major issue of hyped social media presence:

“Social media makes it very easy for people to build a seemingly impressive persona by essentially ‘shouting louder’ than others. Having an opinion on something does not make one an expert.”

http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/7/424

Offices Adopt Safety Protocols Meant for the Field – WSJ

Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/offices-adopt-safety-protocols-meant-for-the-field-1406515193?mobile=y

In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences – Nat Rev Genet

Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n7/abs/nrg3684.html

In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences

Michal Levo & Eran Segal

Nature Reviews Genetics 15, 453–468 (2014) doi:10.1038/nrg3684

Ecker mentions: Design principles of regulatory sequences
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n7/abs/nrg3684.html … for schematics on how to follow up reg. variants #GSPfuture

Common Fund for 4D Nucleome Study

Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

http://commonfund.nih.gov/4DNucleome/overview

http://www.genomeweb.com/nih-common-fund-launches-initiative-study-nucleome-four-dimensions