journal club

Yesterday we had another journal club, and I gave a talk [again]. Now on next generation sequencing and large scale genome projects. Basically I just threw a bunch of links, ideas and names at the audience. This was the 10. journal club and we had 10!!! participants. Somehow the word pathetic came into my mind [...]

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open science: doop

The Database of Orthologous Promoters needs some debugging, cleanup, new features and updated data. I decided that I will publish all notes, problems, developments, data, graphs and results here, as an Open Science experiment. First, the main lines of future development are the following, in no particular order.

The web search interface needs some debugging, as [...]

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atemporality

Keynote of Bruce Sterling on atemporality at the Transmediale 2010 festival. [Sorry for the fucking autostart.]

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stéphane gladyszewski

The work of Stéphane Gladyszewski, a multi-disciplinary artist from Montréal, can be seen at Trafó, Budapest, during the festival Temps d’Images. He mixes sculpture, photography, contemporary dance with digital installations, multimedia and video into an illusionary, dreamlike performance. The titles of the short performances are In Side and Aura. You can find more information on [...]

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information underload

OK, with Google Buzz here, I have to do some drastic cleanup in my various networks, pages, feeds, contacts, etc. So here are the rules, nothing personal, if I remove you, it doesn’t [always] mean I hate you. This will take some time, but everybody will be happier at the end.

My wiw profile will be [...]

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link and video dump

Cleaning out various link collections, notes, txt files, bookmarks, etc.

Open Researcher Contributor Identification Initiative: an open and independent community effort to standardize researcher identification.
DIY Bio: A Growing Movement Takes on Aging: H+ Magazine reports on the DIYbio movement.
Outlaw Biology at UCLA Symposium: DIYbio blog on the Outlaw Biology symposium at UCLA.
Craig Venter at TEDMED 2009 [...]

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processing, pt 1

A while ago I started learning Processing, but I had to stop it because of the spanish exam and various annoying work related stuff. Now I have some time, and also had an idea I wanted to implement. I came up with it after visiting the site of Kitchen Budapest, and besides seeing some cool [...]

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nature.com app

A new iPhone app for nature.com is available at the iTunes store. The interesting part is that you can access all content freely for a while, as the developers are gathering user feedback. So if you have an iPhone, go for it and download the site (or at least the articles you always wanted, but [...]

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nar db 2010

The Nucleic Acids Research 2010 Database Issue is out with 58 new, and 73 updated databases. The full online collection now contains 1230 databases. Besides the usual stuff, like updates on the NCBI, EBI, GeneBank or GeneOntology databases, it now contains descriptions of various resources in Japan, a new database from Slovakia, and lengthy discussions [...]

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singularityu

Daniel Reda’s talk on biotechnology and bioinformatics at the Singularity University.

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biopunk

A biopunk egy biotech, bioinf csináld-magad szubkultúra némi evolúcióelmélettel, memetikával, szkepticizmussal, futurizmussal és hacker kultúrával körítve.

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