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New $17M program exploring mysterious extracellular #RNA: defining its action, collecting #bigdata http://scim.ag/18nWSyU MT @lopezjenniferw

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/947.full

[News & Analysis] Cell Biology: NIH Effort Gambles on Mysterious Extracellular RNAs
A $17 million research program, announced this month by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, aims to determine whether RNA molecules are deliberately released by cells as hormonelike signals—and whether such extracellular RNAs can be harnessed for diagnosis and treatment of human diseases.
Author: Mitch Leslie

http://www2.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Maytal.Saar-Tsechansky/Teaching/Documents/Harvard%20Business%20Review%20Online%20%20Competing%20on%20Analytics.htm http://hbr.org/2006/01/competing-on-analytics/ar/1
An early paper on big data analytics in commercial organizations. Nice overview.
Great quote at the end: “The Oakland A’s aren’t the only ones playing moneyball. Companies of every stripe want to be part of the game.”

Ian Foster talk at CERN on Big Data
https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=239385

how psychohistory (from the Foundation Trilogy) is finally coming into its own!
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/08/ibm-ceo-rometty-says-big-data-is-the-next-great-natural-resource.html

http://www2.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Maytal.Saar-Tsechansky/Teaching/Documents/Harvard%20Business%20Review%20Online%20%20Competing%20on%20Analytics.htm http://hbr.org/2006/01/competing-on-analytics/ar/1

An early paper on big data analytics

– Does this make Bioinformatics cool?
http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century Harvard Business Review

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/big-data-investing-gets-its-own-supergroup/