Archive for October, 2017

A more personal view of human-gene regulation : Nature News & Comment

Saturday, October 14th, 2017

https://www.nature.com/news/a-more-personal-view-of-human-gene-regulation-1.22794

Alignment-free sequence comparison: benefits, applications, and tools | Genome Biology | Full Text

Friday, October 13th, 2017

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-017-1319-7

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning | Quanta Magazine

Thursday, October 12th, 2017

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-cracks-open-the-black-box-of-deep-learning-20170921/?utm_content=buffer5014e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The rise and fall and rise again of 23andMe : Nature News & Comment

Thursday, October 12th, 2017

http://www.nature.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-again-of-23andme-1.22801

Festival of Genomics Boston

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

https://storify.com/markgerstein/favorite-tweets-from-genomicsfest

How’s this for a "simple" tweet:https://twitter.com/markgerstein/status/897638622207365121

Peer review is a thankless job. One firm wants to change that

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21722822-publons-wants-scientists-be-rewarded-assessing-others-work-peer-review

review and prosper economist

Iris van Herpen’s Hi-Tech Couture | The New Yorker

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/25/iris-van-herpens-hi-tech-couture

Big biology projects warm up to preprints : Nature News & Comment

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

https://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-projects-warm-up-to-preprints-1.21074

How do I disable two finger gestures (Back/Forward) on Chrome for 10.7? – Google Product Forums

Sunday, October 8th, 2017

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/PaMriZC-Kuo

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OK — This isn’t a real fix, but I turned off "swipe between pages" in System Preferences -> Trackpad -> More Gestures.

Apparently "between pages" of a PDF or whatever is seen as back-forward in the browser. I wish you could keep the page turning and kill the browsing hiccup.

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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Wikipedia

Sunday, October 8th, 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Edmund_Fitzgerald