Archive for April, 2016

Mini–mental state examination – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%E2%80%93mental_state_examination

Alzheimer’s Disease: A Self-Portrait by William Utermohlen – Your Financial Life

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

https://www.transamerica.com/yourlife/retirement/education/alzheimers-self-portraits-by-william-utermohlen

Eli Lilly’s Good Cholesterol Drug Went Bad. Here’s What That Means For Pharma – Forbes

Monday, April 4th, 2016

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/12/eli-lillys-good-cholesterol-drug-goes-bad/#6e5015b520f5

San Francisco, ‘the Silicon Valley of Recycling’

Monday, April 4th, 2016

SF, the SV of #Recycling
http://www.NYTimes.com/2016/03/29/science/san-francisco-the-silicon-valley-of-recycling.html Describes a Willy-Wonka like center w/o the chocolate that has become a tourist attraction

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““It’s Willy Wonka’s everything-you-can-imagine-recycling place,” Mr. Reed said during the recent tour. The former freelance reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle loves talking about recycling and composting so much that it is as enjoyable “as a woman asking if she can give me a back rub.” he says.”
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PLOS Computational Biology: Discovering Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Highly Repetitive Regions of Genomes with Multi-Read Analysis of ChIP-Seq Data

Sunday, April 3rd, 2016

Discovering TFBSs in…Repetitive Regions of #Genomes with Multi-Read
Analysis http://journals.PLOS.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002111 CSEM uses EM to refine site occupancy

Chung D, Kuan PF, Li B, SanalKumar R, Liang K, Bresnick E, Dewey C, and Keles S (2011), “Discovering transcription factor binding sites in highly repetitive regions of genomes with multi-read analysis of ChIP-Seq data,” PLoS Computational Biology, 7(7): e1002111

http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~keles/Software/multi-reads/

CSEM

https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repository/display_tool?repository_id=e18c78b20646a2aa&tool_config=database%2Fcommunity_files%2F000%2Frepo_83%2Fcsem.xml&changeset_revision=1438767ad92f

Cypherpunks Write Code » American Scientist

Friday, April 1st, 2016

Cypherpunks Write Code
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/cypherpunks-write-code Describes a mailing list at the origin of #PGP & @wikileaks

Security Now 543 LostPass | TWiT

Friday, April 1st, 2016

Lostpass https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/543 … Describes a subtle #phishing attack on @LastPass but still ends up strongly endorsing the program

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-543.pdf

Team of Rival Scientists Comes Together to Fight Zika – The New York Times

Friday, April 1st, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/mapping-a-genetic-strategy-to-fight-the-zika-virus.html?_r=0