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Balanced perspective on history and future of genomic medicine by Jay Shendure https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30152-7

https://mailchi.mp/add7f814b67d/neurodevelopments-720229
https://www.libd.org/neurodevelopments/

the Lieber’s neuroDEVELOPMENTS newsletter, which features the PsychENCODE paper

prediction markets
https://www.predictit.org/

February 13, 2019
Q&A With Mark B. Gerstein, PhD, on Diagnostic Genomic vs Exomic Sequencing Bryant Furlow
https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/home/cancer-topics/general-oncology/qa-with-mark-b-gerstein-phd-on-diagnostic-genomic-vs-exomic-sequencing/

WORKS IN PROGRESS – SPRING 2019
Decoding DNA
On the hunt for the genetic roots of mental illnesses

By Marcus Banks | March 4, 2019

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The model, a form of artificial intelligence, aims to use abstract knowledge gained in the research lab to improve clinical treatments for real patients. The ultimate goal, says Gerstein, is to use the model to develop pharmaceutical treatments that reduce the impact of schizophrenia. Part of the challenge in developing drugs to treat the disease is the fact that it is not a one-size-fits-all condition. “]]

https://theamericanscholar.org/decoding-dna/#.XH7RRlNKiqA

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the launch of the NIST Privacy Engineering Collaboration Space! The collaboration space is an online venue open to the public where practitioners can discover, share, discuss, and improve upon open source tools, solutions, and processes that support privacy
engineering and risk management. We have launched the space with a focus on de-identification and privacy risk management tools and use cases, gathered via GitHub for collaboration purposes.
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https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/privacy-engineering/collaboration-space

A lineage-resolved molecular atlas of C elegans embryogenesis at #singlecell resolution, w/ @JIsaacMurray, @JunhyongKim, @ColeTrapnell & B Waterston https://www.BiorXiv.org/content/10.1101/565549v1 Compares the known cell lineage of the worm to trees based on UMAP cell-type clusters. Remarkable agreement

https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1101927645145645056

“Is Email Making Professors Stupid?” is the Q posed by
https://www.Chronicle.com/interactives/is-email-making-professors-stupid . My A: YES. The article has a nice description of the problem with 24/7 connectivity: how the urgent but unimportant crowds out the important but non-urgent

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“Knuth does provide his mailing address at Stanford, and he asks that people send an old-fashioned letter if they need to contact him. His administrative assistant gathers these letters and presents them to Knuth in batches, getting urgent correspondence to him quickly, and putting everything else into a “buffer” that he reviews, on average, “one day every three months.”

Knuth’s approach to email prioritizes the long-term value of uninterrupted concentration over the short-term convenience of accessibility. Objectively speaking, this tradeoff makes sense, but it’s so foreign to most tenured and tenure-track professors that it can seem ludicrous — more parody than pragmatism. This is because in the modern academic environment professors act more like middle managers than monastics. A major factor driving this reality is the digital communication Knuth so carefully avoids. Faculty life now means contending with an unending stream of electronic missives, many of which come with an expectation of rapid reply.”
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“Is Email Making Professors Stupid?” is the Q posed by
https://www.Chronicle.com/interactives/is-email-making-professors-stupid . My A: YES. The article has a nice description of the problem with 24/7 connectivity: how the urgent but unimportant crowds out the important but non-urgent

https://www.redwoodlibrary.org/