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Google Metabolic Maps

Thu, 2007-05-31 23:01 — Duncan

Google in the Palm of my HandThese days, new Google products and code seem to appear on a weekly basis. Take, for example, Google Gears which takes advantage of SQLite, mentioned on nodalpoint recently. They certainly don't hang about at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Wouldn't it be great if Google applied some of that engineering expertise and agility to science and bioinformatics? Just imagine: we could have Google Metabolic Maps, a virtual globe of the cell for scientists everywhere...


AAAI: Google and the Semantic, Satanic, Romantic Web

Wed, 2006-07-19 22:09 — Duncan

Google Blue YellowTim Berners-Lee delivered his one hour keynote at the AAAI'06 conference yesterday on the Semantic Web, after an introduction from Yolanda Gil. Tim gave an impassioned speech covering the last 16 years of the web and discussed the future of sharing data on the web using persistent URI's and W3C standards like RDF and OWL. At the end of it all, there were some searching questions from Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google Labs.


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