Via Jonathan Eisen, NSF is using a wiki to get input on genomes and phenomes BIO seeks community input on Genomes-Phenomes research frontiersJohn Wingfield, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), is pleased to announce the posting of a Wiki to seek community input on the grand challenge of understanding the […]
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Updating to Mavericks Server
We have a mini that we got to support a program to train undergrads in bioinformatics. Over the past week or so I’ve been working on updating it to run Mavericks and Mavericks Server. I first decided to go with OSX servers back when I had a G5 blade running Panther Server for the user-friendly GUI […]
Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws
That’s the title of a new opinion piece in PNAS (pdf). I’m using this post to gather links to other people’s thoughts on this (I may or may not opine myself later) Derek Lowe Mike the Mad Biologist Drug Monkey Neurocritic phys.org homlog.us says central planning is the problem More as I find them….
Open source communities are different
Via Althouse, Farhad Manjoo argues in the NYT that Brendan Eich had to resign because: Mozilla is not a normal company. It is an activist organization. Mozilla’s primary mission isn’t to make money but to spread open-source code across the globe in the eventual hope of promoting “the development of the Internet as a public resource.” As […]
Does OKCupid know…
…that Brendan Eich invented Javascript? Not much to add to what these people said