I usually don't attend these type of things. For one, I have enough work to do at my real job during the day. Half the time these are just marketing things anyway. When they're not, then I prefer to just read something, which takes far less time than sitting on the phone. I attended today's because it was hosted by Kevin Davies, author of "The $1000 Genome" book, which I am considering purchasing.
Speakers:
1. Chris Dwan, BioTeam
http://blog.bioteam.net/
2. Tom Downey, Partek, Inc., St. Louis
www.partek.com
for copy of slides: inquire@partek.com
3. Matthew Kayser, DNASTAR
Product lines focused on desktop computer
4. Michael Kuzyk, GenoLogics
RapidScripting API
www.genologics.com
5. Clifford Baron, Accelrys
accelrys.com
Complexity of data analysis are greatest hurdle to $1000 genome
Some terms to research:
reads -- short and long
SNPs
assembly
mapread
inversion
indel
CNV
expression factor
exome
Other
The symposium will be archived and available online for 90 days. I will post the link here when I get it.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
RNA : The Game
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/3742/rna-the-game
I know there are other scientific games. I will review these in an upcoming post.
I know there are other scientific games. I will review these in an upcoming post.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Computational Astrobiology? Yes!
Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Astrobiology, and now Computational Astrobiology? Not to mention things like Astrochemistry and Astrophysics and all the other great science stuff out there. Where have I been all these years? Oh yeah, being a computer scientist (or software engineer, if you like). LOL
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/careers/computational-astrobiology-summer-school-2010-cass-2010/
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/careers/computational-astrobiology-summer-school-2010-cass-2010/
Bioinformatics Odyssey 2010.11.04
Tonite I have a test over Cellular Reproduction and Inheritance. Next chapter finally is the DNA chapter which we started Tuesday and will probably finish tonite. Yay! Nothing long to post here, no time to think or type, except to post this cool link I just found thanks to a co-worker:
http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/
I will be reading this this weekend sometime to see what it's about.
-- Sid
http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/
I will be reading this this weekend sometime to see what it's about.
-- Sid
Monday, October 18, 2010
Bioinformatics Odyssey Stardate 2010.10.18
Hello all...
Wow, 30 days to the day since my last post. That says alot about how the course has advanced along rapidly in terms of more complicated material, thus I've spent way more time studying and had less time to even think about writing blog posts. Remember, it's been 23 years or more since I last studied Biology. Phew. I've asked myself a few times, "Sid, what the hell are you doing, man?" in the past few weeks. We've had two tests already and the third is tomorrow. I should be studying.
Thing is, I really do like this class and what I'm learning. It just goes by too fast. I work all day, then go to class, and my brain just wants to relax and I'm trying to make it consume way more new stuff than I ever had in one day of my day job in a long time. But, when I take a few minutes away from the computer screen, and the textbook, I start thinking in pictures about what I'm learning, and it takes me back to why I chose this path... learning about how it is that we're all here.
Since that last blog post we've done chapters on biological molecules, cell structure, and energy flow in cells, and tomorrow's test is on photosynthesis and cellular respiration. I looked ahead and after this we're going to be delving into DNA and genetics, which is the stuff that got me to sign up in the first place. Finally! Tomorrow's test I'm thinking may be the hardest out of the 5 we'll have total in the class, but I could very well end up eating those words on the next test. Surely I'm underestimating the power of the complexity of DNA and genetics, eh? Kinda makes me wonder, after this first quarter, what will be left that we've saved for the 2nd and third quarter of this course sequence? Even more interesting stuff, I presume.
I still haven't had time to play around with any Bioinformatics tools to start getting my feet wet with what's out there, but I'll have some time during the break in between quarters at least. I don't have anything new and exciting for anyone to read in this post. I assume at some point I'll be able to make the blog a more interesting read along the lines of what I had mentioned before, being a resource for other programmers interested in getting into Bioinformatics.
In the meantime, if you're bored, check out the banner ad to the left for the new documentary coming out real soon (and in fact you can pre-purchase on that Kickstarter link) called "DMT: The Spirit Molecule". Or the website here:
http://thespiritmolecule.com/
I wonder if we'll be learning anything about *that* in this course sequence I'm taking.... ;-)
Wow, 30 days to the day since my last post. That says alot about how the course has advanced along rapidly in terms of more complicated material, thus I've spent way more time studying and had less time to even think about writing blog posts. Remember, it's been 23 years or more since I last studied Biology. Phew. I've asked myself a few times, "Sid, what the hell are you doing, man?" in the past few weeks. We've had two tests already and the third is tomorrow. I should be studying.
Thing is, I really do like this class and what I'm learning. It just goes by too fast. I work all day, then go to class, and my brain just wants to relax and I'm trying to make it consume way more new stuff than I ever had in one day of my day job in a long time. But, when I take a few minutes away from the computer screen, and the textbook, I start thinking in pictures about what I'm learning, and it takes me back to why I chose this path... learning about how it is that we're all here.
Since that last blog post we've done chapters on biological molecules, cell structure, and energy flow in cells, and tomorrow's test is on photosynthesis and cellular respiration. I looked ahead and after this we're going to be delving into DNA and genetics, which is the stuff that got me to sign up in the first place. Finally! Tomorrow's test I'm thinking may be the hardest out of the 5 we'll have total in the class, but I could very well end up eating those words on the next test. Surely I'm underestimating the power of the complexity of DNA and genetics, eh? Kinda makes me wonder, after this first quarter, what will be left that we've saved for the 2nd and third quarter of this course sequence? Even more interesting stuff, I presume.
I still haven't had time to play around with any Bioinformatics tools to start getting my feet wet with what's out there, but I'll have some time during the break in between quarters at least. I don't have anything new and exciting for anyone to read in this post. I assume at some point I'll be able to make the blog a more interesting read along the lines of what I had mentioned before, being a resource for other programmers interested in getting into Bioinformatics.
In the meantime, if you're bored, check out the banner ad to the left for the new documentary coming out real soon (and in fact you can pre-purchase on that Kickstarter link) called "DMT: The Spirit Molecule". Or the website here:
http://thespiritmolecule.com/
I wonder if we'll be learning anything about *that* in this course sequence I'm taking.... ;-)
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