Science and Art

Intuition

It is not easy being a scientist. There are the four-plus years of struggle getting your PhD only to find yourself on the postdoc treadmill dealing with lab politics, grants, PIs and the distinct possibility that your current project might end up being a total waste of time. This postdoc limbo is valuable time, that if not spent productively leads to less papers and less career opportunities. And the whole time the only people that will ever appreciate your situation are your fellow scientific competitors. Well that may be about to change with the publication of Allegra Goodman's new novel Intuition. I came across this novel via the Nature Genetics Free Association blog. Read on for a mini review of the first three chapters.


CompLearn open-source data compression based analysis system available

Congratulations on an exciting new site, it looks like it's beginning to really shape up!

I figured maybe I can liven it up a bit with a small (beta) debut here. Maybe you'd like to have a look at my new (totally rewritten) software for bioinformatics analysis; it supports analyzing almost every type of file through some advanced information theory techniques. Try it and see, it's easy to use:

complearn.org


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