Nodalpointers may be interested in this unique book, which contains chapters on bioinformatics and systems biology:
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BIOMEDIA
Eugene Thacker
University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2003
Electronic Mediations Series, volume 11
The merging of computer science and molecular biology, genetic codes and computer codes.
Not exactly bioinformatics-related, but I'm excited by the news of methane on Mars. Check out my additions to ArchaeaWeb on this topic.
On a side note, the BBC article originally stated that bacteria are methanogens. I wrote to point out the error and they corrected it and replied personally! Now that's public service.
I was doing a bit of Googling on the topic of grid computing. Specifically, I was looking for good examples of universities using idle computer resources to good effect. Our uni has heaps of machines that are idle much of the time and I'm considering raising awareness of the issue.
Does anyone have a good example, maybe from their own uni or research institute that they'd like to share?
On a separate but related note, I'm not sure what to make of PatriotGrid. At the least, it's a bloody awful name.
ClusterControl: a web interface for distributing and monitoring bioinformatics applications on a Linux cluster Gernot Stocker, Dietmar Rieder, and Zlatko Trajanoski Bioinformatics 2004 20: 805-807.
The authors describe a web interface for administering binf apps on a cluster.
How would one collect all hits to a general PubMed query (eg "mice"[MeSH Terms] ==> 664818)? This would be useful for eg text mining sets. I believe NCBI will provide a hard copy of the entire database on request/licence agreement, but that would date quickly. Any interactive ideas? I guess the format would preferably be XML (failing that, medline/bibtex?)
Lincoln Stein wins the Ben Franklin award. He's been cited for OOS development, including BioPerl.
Via Snowdeal
Via Hublog:
"Thomson ISI to track web-based scholarship with NEC's CiteSeer technology [via Open Access News ]
I wonder, if you publish a paper under a (Creative Commons, say) open-access licence that prohibits commercial usage, whether that would preclude companies like Thomson from restricting access to/selling the citation data they extract."
Interesting question, it would be nice to see the consequences of someone testing this :)
