intro to synthbio
Posted by razor | Filed under Biotech, English
Andrew Hessel, pioneer in synthetic biology, discusses the similarities between computing and biology during a talk at Singularity University.
Tags: andrew hessel, Biotech, computing, singularityu, synthbio, synthetic biology
unitxt u_08-1
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Művészkedés
Short movie directed by Carsten Nicolai, music by Alva Noto, voice by Anne James-Chaton, shot in Tokyo.
Tags: alva noto, anne james-chaton, carsten nicolai, movie, tokyo
on mendeley
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Szolgáltatás
I almost finished importing and correcting a large number of articles, books, tutorials and other stuff into Mendeley, and I promised on twitter to write about bugs, needed features, etc. In general, the title and author extraction is quite good by now, but there are some problems with journal titles, volume and page numbers, issues [...]
Tags: annotation, articles, journals, mendeley, metadata, pdf, software
journal club
Posted by razor | Filed under Bioinformatika, English
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 [...]
Tags: conservation, dna, expression, genome, journal club, nextgen, presentation, sequencing, topology
open science: doop
Posted by razor | Filed under Bioinformatika, English
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 [...]
Tags: database, doop, open science, promóter, redesign
atemporality
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Filozofálás
Keynote of Bruce Sterling on atemporality at the Transmediale 2010 festival. [Sorry for the fucking autostart.]
Tags: atemporality, bruce sterling, transmediale, video
stéphane gladyszewski
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Művészkedés
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 [...]
Tags: art, Budapest, contemporary, dance, multimedia, performance, stéphane gladyszewski, Trafó
information underload
Posted by razor | Filed under Agymenés, English
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 [...]
Tags: buzz, google, information underload, socialnetwork
link and video dump
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Linkdump
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 [...]
Tags: dataviz, design, diybio, genetics, orcid, synthbio, tedmed
processing, pt 1
Posted by razor | Filed under English, processing
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 [...]
Tags: digital art, eye tracking, java, processing, webcam