Origin of Co-Expression Patterns in E.coli and S.cerevisiae Emerging from Reverse Engineering Algorithms (1)
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by Mattia Zampieri, Nicola Soranzo, Daniele Bianchini, Claudio Altafini Background The concept of reverse engineering a gene network, i.e., of inferring a genome-wide graph of putative gene-gene interactions from compendia of high throughput microarray data has been extensively used in the last few years to deduce/integrate/validate various types of “physical” networks of interactions among genes or gene products. Results This paper gives a comprehensive overview of which of these networks emerge significantly when reverse engineering ...
Is a knol a scientific publishing platform? (2)
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Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Google has recently released knol, which most people are calling Google’s version of Wikipedia. The main difference between a knol and a wikipedia article is that a knol has associated authorship or ownership against an article. This factor has caused some issues an outcries focusing on the merits of the wisdom of crowds verses the merits of single individuals and the whole ethos if information dissemination on the Web. (There ...
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Hi pedrobeltrao Thank you for your congratulations and your question. The sponsorship simply gives us more resources to continue to do what we already are. The development direction of the site remains unchanged and is in the hands of the Chris and Richard (with me nagging them every now and again). As I'm sure you know, there is already a long list of stuff that we plan to do. If you have hung around this ...
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Pedro Beltrao said:
Here is the response from CiteULike. They say that sponsorship from Springer will not affect the project.
ISME 12 Cairns - Highlights of Sunday and Monday (2)
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The first two days of ISME went quite well. First of all, I have to give the organizers high marks for actually providing a conference bag worth having (BTW, it would be interesting to figure out someday where and when the custom of "conference bags" started -- why does every conference assume that attendees need a conference-specific bag?) Rather than the nearly useless tote bags which one often gets, the ISME 12 bag is a ...
"The Pickens Plan" for Wind Energy: Why Use Natural Gas for Cars? (1)
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Oilman T. Boone Pickens made a splash last week by announcing plans to build a wind farm with 4,000 megawatts worth of generating capacity. The Pickens Plan calls the U.S. the Saudi Arabia of oil wind, and he notes that,...
Code as Art: Generative Visual Inspiration and Sharing (8)
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Generative works from Keith Peters, on his new Art from Code site. As code literacy improves and coding tools like Processing and Flash make it easier to produce stunning visual results, the line between the coder/hacker and digital artist, and more conventional artists, is blurring fast. The next trend: networks and blogs on which people share not just their work, but the code behind it. The idea is old, but there’s no question the breadth ...
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fo.ol said:
opening generative art with processing and flash... share the code!
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Sara said:
amazing
Upload to Google Docs bookmarklet (2)
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As described on Google OS, you can upload documents directly to Google Docs from the web. This works for documents (.doc/.txt/.html/.rtf/.odt), spreadsheets (.xls/.csv/.ods), presentations (.ppt) and PDF files. Here's a bookmarklet: Upload to Google Docs In theory, a journal publishing data sets could easily construct a link or button that would upload a data set directly to Google Docs for further interaction. On a related note, iTrail has solved the problem of how to get ...
SciFoo: scientific fireworks (The Seven Stones) (2)
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In his list of eight 'generative' values (Better Than Free), Kevin Kelly includes 'embodiment'–the actual physical realization of an item or event which could be otherwise freely distributed over the web. While we are all 'hyperlinked' on the Internet, the value of those unique qualities that cannot be generated or "copied" on the web is dramatically increased. The type of intense emulation and shared excitement sparked at the recent Science Foo Camp (SciFoo 2008), organized ...
How to Share a Social Network (1)
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Euan wrote about this on Nascent, but I had a post planned as well. Basically the question is - in order to transfer a social network between sites - "How do you share a list of email addresses with an untrusted third-party?" The scenario is that you're running a site with user accounts, and users want to export their social network. The problem is that you don't want to expose the email addresses of a ...
Google integrates Scholar into main page (1)
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I don't know if it's just me (sitting inside a research institution), but when I search for something that returns a paper, I get info from Google Scholar:(See also the complete screenshot with notes on Flickr.) However, the order of the results is different: Google Scholar seems to weight by citations, Google by page rank.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Easy does it (6)
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showed that as more journals and articles came online, the actual number of them cited in research decreased, and those that were cited tended to be of more recent vintage. This proved true for virtually all fields of science ... Moreover, the easy online availability of sources has channeled researcher attention from the periphery to the core—to the most high-status journals. In short, searching online is more efficient, and hyperlinks quickly put researchers in touch ...
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It's a valid point. If you can find something close to what your looking for you'll grab it. But true rigor is vetting all options and then drawing a conclusion. It's easy to pat yourself on the back and say "LOOK WHAT I FOUND!".
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When the efficiency ethic moves from the realm of goods production to the realm of intellectual exploration, as it is doing with the Net, we shouldn't be surprised to find a narrowing rather than a broadening of the field of study. Search engines, after all, are popularity engines that concentrate attention rather than expanding it, and, as Evans notes, efficiency amplifies our native laziness.
Data portability for scientific web apps (8)
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In theory I know these people Executive summary: we created a new room on FriendFeed which might be a good place to discuss data portability from a scientific networking perspective. Having the ability to share one network (or a particular subset thereof) of friends and contacts across different social networking sites is a good idea. It has been kicking around for a while and it's a feature Nature definitely wants to support in its social ...
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U2 manager Paul McGuinness, who wants file-sharers to be disconnected from the Internet, has something else to complain about today. Four songs from U2’s upcoming album ‘No Line On The Horizon’ have been leaked online after Bono played them too loudly on his stereo - and a fan recorded them. There’s little file-sharers like more than news of a little payback. Ever since U2 manager Paul McGuiness suggested that people using P2P should have their ...Shared by Amish Schulze (18) Andrew Littler (16) Angus (43) Anthony Parello (9) Brad Brown Jr. (18) Brad Kovach (0) Cai Chen (1016) Chet Nichols III (0) clq (13) Cubby Brendle (15) Dan (36) Daniel Testa (2) Dave Gonzales (9) Dennis (9) dj empirical (90) Dudu P (23) FSFunky (1) Hiroyuki Fushitani (0) iuri (5) Jamie Diamond (4) Jane Burt (17) Jarret Myer (2) John Staton (5) Justin Laramée (10) Jye (30) Kevin Federline (286) Kyle Saric (0) localcelebrity (14) Matt (5) McFrugal (2) Mickey Asteriou (0) Mike (0) mopperx2 (3) Nathan Reale (2) Pablo (5) Paul Jordan (0) Paul Ward (1) Pedro Beltrao (2) Peter (5) Rami Taibah (478) Richard Hare (0) Ryan Bavetta (1) Seth Brady (0) Sham (107) Shea Gunther (117) stevenedge (9) swined (24) Timothy (417) TJ Lauerman (12) Tom Langston (0) Trevor Shafer (29) Zak M. (618) ZayneHumphrey (14)
