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Slides from a short talk in the Integration Analysis and Visualization symposium at the 2014 Molecular Medicine Triconference.
Something I’ve been thinking about came up several times at BioIT World last week. It was mentioned during the cloud computing workshop and…
Today an article I wrote for Bio-IT World was published describing Antibody docking experiments that are running on Amazon EC2. Since my…
The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo ‘09 took place last week in Boston. Highlights included my role model and colleague Chris Dagdigian…
This was originally intended to be micro-blogged talk. Probably on friendfeed. But when I walked into the old Chevron building on the Pitt…
There was a time in structural biology when solving protein structures using NMR was received with considerable skepticism. In addition to…
RIP Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008)
This past weekend I attended my first ISMB conference in Toronto, ON. I didn’t have time to attend the main conference but I did enjoy the…
There’s an upcoming workshop at the PSC September 8 – 11, 2008 This workshop will present programming models and techniques for writing…
David Baker is one of my favorite scientists. His group performs the best at CASP. He started the Rosetta protein folding and design…
When I started working in a bioinformatics research lab I quickly discovered the wonderful dynamic language that is Perl. I’ve spent a…
Update: Mike over at Bioinformatics Zen has written a more thorough post about organised bioinformatics experiments with examples using Rake…
Just in case you need another -omics in your biotech vocabulary. Dynameomics is an effort by the Dagget group at the University of…
This afternoon I sat through a presentation from a few guys at Netezza. They were here to discuss their system for high-performance data…
Journals Big science from Andrei Sali and David Baker * The molecular architecture of the nuclear pore complex * De Novo Computational…
Around the web, week of March 7, 2008 Bio::Blogs #19, the engineering edition! BuzzClouds in science, a very cool vizualization of…
These things are being developed by the Robotics Institute on our campus. I’m partially amazed and partially terrified. I’ve heard they work…
Two topics that I have been been reading a lot lately, Domain Specific Languages in Ruby and screencasting have converged to create a very…
There’s a new podcast on Futures in Biotech with Dr. Pande from Folding@Home. Macresearch summarized it well: How a bunch of Sony PS3s have…
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. -Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God Over the holidays I used the time off…
The PSC and NRBSC have made the news again, this time in HPCwire. They’ve posted the Readers and Editors Choice awards for SC07 and the…
Since today is my birthday I find myself thinking about aging. I went back and listened to one of the first FIB podcasts. It features…
SC07 is in full swing in Reno. I promised some details about the PSC booth, more specifically the Wiimote controlled Molecular Dynamics demo…
It’s that time of year. SC07 begins in Reno next week, and everyone around here is getting prepared. Unfortunately this is the second year…
Following up on my previous post about community efforts and collective intelligence. I recreated some figures from my notes on a…
Science blogs are emerging everywhere. The-Scientist did an article about biomed at the PSC in the August issue. They’re now running a ‘Top…
I love me some O’Reilly books. After recently reading Beautiful Code (I should write a review soon). I am eagerly awaiting a new book I just…
BleedingEdgeBiotech is now listed in the wiki at Nodalpoint thanks to Greg. The community there is fantastic and I am often inspired by the…
A fundamental process of life is the selective and efficient catalysis of chemical reactions by enzymes. Enzymes are usually proteins…
I have some strong reservations about data ownership when we talk about a Google-dependent world. However I think the current state of…
Listening to the latest FIB podcast, What is the nutrient and caloric value in food? Is it an absolute term? … a box of cheerios says 11…
Eric Rollins did some interesting tests with Ruby. It should be possible to run parallel tasks effectively with DRb. I am going to do some…
Nintendo’s latest video console the Wii is doing very well. What I’ve found interesting is the exploration people are doing with the Wiimote…
SIGGRAPH 2006
Tim O’Reilly was commenting on some Google business when he points out that data ownership is crucial to future technology giants. we see…
An arstechnica review got me to try the Papers.app for OS X today. Clearly designed with the life sciences in mind, Papers definitely has an…
If we imagine protein folding as the exploration by a human explorer navigating a rugged landscape in search of the lowest elevation point…
Ironically printed on a colorful paper flyer…. Describe The Impact of Cyberinfrastructure on Your World Cyberinfrastructure new research…
I read a great paper by Såli et al this week, Refining Protein Structures by Iterative Comparative Modeling and CryoEM Density Fitting. 2BLD…
Google has their annual Summer of Code. Plenty of great projects and extra incentives for students to participate. Including $5,000 per…
I’ve finally started a blog to ramble about my research, readings, excitations, and frustrations. I intend to discuss science and technology…