Archive for November, 2017

NIH awards to test ways to store, access, share, and compute on biomedical data in the cloud | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-awards-test-ways-store-access-share-compute-biomedical-data-cloud

Don’t Nudge Me: The Limits of Behavioral Economics in Medicine – The New York Times

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/upshot/dont-nudge-me-the-limits-of-behavioral-economics-in-medicine.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Why these powerful health care gurus left the East Coast for California

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

https://www.statnews.com/2017/11/06/california-startup-culture/

Reading by the Numbers: When Big Data Meets Literature – NYTimes.com

Monday, November 6th, 2017

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/arts/franco-moretti-stanford-literary-lab-big-data.html?emc=edit_th_20171031&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=48818608&_r=0&referer=

Genome Informatics meeting

Monday, November 6th, 2017

LINKS

https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/i0gi2017/

TWEETS

https://storify.com/markgerstein/favorite-tweets-from-genome-informatics-17-gi2017-

TALK

http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Mutations-in-2500-cancer-genomes–20171104-i0gi2017/

OTHER materials (passwd access) in
http://meetings.gersteinlab.org/2017/10.28/i0gi2017/

Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals – The New York Times

Sunday, November 5th, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur

DMDM: domain mapping of disease mutations | Bioinformatics | Oxford Academic

Sunday, November 5th, 2017

https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/26/19/2458/229387

Links to “Oncology at the Limits” and TRACERx Consortium

Sunday, November 5th, 2017


Here is a link to the “Oncology at the Limits” Conference which is co-organised between UCL and Yale, …. It will be from
19th to 21st March at the Royal College of Physicians in London.

http://www.thelancet.com/education/at-the-limits/oncology-2017

https://www.atthelimits.org/

The Keynote this year was … about the Lung TRACERx consortium. It is a project which
performs multi-site sampling of tumours to gain an insight into subclonal populations, and also follows up on the presence, expansion or response to therapy of these subclones via circulating-tumour-DNA. …

http://www.thelancet.com/education/at-the-limits/oncology-2017/sequencing-cancer-genomes-and-personalising-cancer-treatments

….

Split Sequence Bloom Trees – Kingsford Group

Sunday, November 5th, 2017

http://kingsfordlab.cbd.cmu.edu/2016/12/18/split-sequence-bloom-trees/

Fast search of thousands of short-read sequencing experiments : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Research

Sunday, November 5th, 2017

https://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v34/n3/full/nbt.3442.html