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QT:{{"The research system does not recognize bioinformaticians for doing what the scientific community needs most. “People realize the importance, but currently there are no real solutions,” says Xiaole Liu, a bioinformatician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. This is why it can take more than six months to fill positions at a core, why many of biology’s brightest are leaving science for technology companies, and why conventional biologists wait nine months to get help to dissect their data.
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Reward bioinformaticians [for collaboration] http://www.nature.com/news/core-services-reward-bioinformaticians-1.17251 Despite #bigdata boom, biomedical analysis could be made more appealing

Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/06/banjo-raises-100-million-to-detect-world-events-in-real-time Will their global "crystal ball" notice this tweet?

Accounting for technical noise in single-cell RNA-seq experiments : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n11/full/nmeth.2645.html

Optimizing bitmap indices with efficient compression
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1132864

PLOS Genetics: Genetic Adaptation Associated with Genome-Doubling in Autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003093

Advantages and pitfalls in the application of mixed-model association methods : Nature Genetics : Nature Publishing Group
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n2/abs/ng.2876.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/opinion/joe-nocera-battle-for-the-boardroom.html?ad-keywords=socialopinion&smid=tw-nytopinion&_r=0

http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i16/Tapping-Yeasts-Genome.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/06/banjo-raises-100-million-to-detect-world-events-in-real-time/

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2015/nhgri-07.htm