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Hum. Longevity

https://search.hli.io/

Universality of human #microbial dynamics
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7606/abs/nature18301.html Addressed via simulations & graphs comparing counts of species v organisms

Punctuated equilibrium in the large-scale #evolution of #programming languages http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/107/20150249 Clustering groups these into trees

Punctuated equilibrium in the large-scale evolution of programming languages
Sergi Valverde, Ricard V. Solé

Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress

http://trancik.scripts.mit.edu/home/data/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052669

Béla Nagy,
J. Doyne Farmer,
Quan M. Bui,
Jessika E. Trancik

Published: February 28, 2013
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052669

They published a paper on a web tool to generate box plots !! http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n2/full/nmeth.2811.html QT:{{”
Despite the obvious advantages of the box plot for simultaneous representation of data set and statistical parameters, this method is not in common use, in part because few available software tools allow the facile generation of box plots. For example, the standard spreadsheet tool Excel is unable to generate box plots.
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M.S. and J.W. conceived of the box plot tool
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Related:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/01/21/bioinformatics.btu038.abstract

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/09/342196432/by-the-numbers-search-nih-grant-data-by-institution

Functional characterization of… developmental #enhancers in vivo: 3.5k of 7.7k tested active in fly embryo stages
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v512/n7512/abs/nature13395.html

An article on how Eric Schadt tries to treat a cancer patient by sequencing… http://www.esquire.com/features/patient-zero-1213-6