An #algorithm for getting through your to-do list
https://next.FT.com/content/d24fce5e-58fc-11e6-9f70-badea1b336d4 a key is to avoid too much multitasking, which leads to thrashing
chariots of fire & Downton Abbey in roughly same period
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0787524/
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The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
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Biological Data Science
October 26 – 29, 2016
Abstract Deadline: August 12, 2016
Organizers:
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=DATA&year=16
The meeting this year has an
“education forum”. A few speakers will be giving short
presentations on the curriculum and resources of various
institutions, followed by a panel Q&A discussion about best practices and needs in the field.
Synthetic microbe lives with fewer than 500 genes from @JCVenterInst http://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2016/03/synthetic-microbe-lives-less-500-genes 179 of the 479 genes have unknown functions
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“The microbe’s streamlined genetic structure excites evolutionary biologists and biotechnologists, who anticipate adding genes back to it one by one to study their effects. “It’s an important step to creating a living cell where the genome is fully defined,” says synthetic biologist Chris Voigt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. But Voigt and others note that this complete definition remains a ways off, because the function of 149 of Syn 3.0’s genes—roughly one-third—
remains unknown. Investigators’ first task is to probe the roles of those genes, which promise new insights into the basic biology of life.”
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