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Warren DeLano
added on 07 Nov 2009
Like so many others, I was shocked to find out this week that Warren DeLano died. He was both an inspiration to me and a genuinely nice guy. I still can hardly believe it. For those who may not be familiar with his work, Warren was the creator of PyMOL, an open source molecular visualization pac...
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10,000 genomes.
added on 07 Nov 2009
Lots of genomes going to be sequenced. Some of the members of the group are colleagues at Guelph. Very cool. That is all. Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species Genome 10K Community of Scientists The human genome project has been recently complemen...
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O'Donnell: Republican Loss a Stunning Defeat
added on 07 Nov 2009
Michael Steele is downplaying the significance of the Loss of the 23rd in NY. But Lawrence O'Donnell has set him straight: Michael, you made the 23rd the most important congressional district in the country. The Democrats didn't do it. You did it. You lost it. You led your party to a disastrous...
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Response to Dan Ariely's Duke Sex Toy Study Is Predictably Irrational
added on 07 Nov 2009
Father Joe Vetter, director of Duke University's Catholic Center, is protesting trial participant accrual for a study being conducted on campus directed by Dr Dan Ariely, the James B Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Fuqua School of Business (story and video). Ariely is also the autho...
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CureHunter: Interview with Judge Schonfeld, part I [NGS]
added on 07 Nov 2009
CureHunter is a web accessible, fully integrated scientific search, data retrieval and analysis engine. Developed by a team of scientists with expertise in medical data mining, artificial intelligence software development, computational linguistics and computational biology, CureHunter “reads” th...
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