Here is another take home item of the recent EMGS 2011 meeting at the King’s College. Located in the apse there are 5 topics as originally conceived by Gilbert Scott: Christ in the carpenter’s shop, Christ and the lawyers, Christ healing the sick, Christ teaching the people and The Cruxification. While that may all be appropriate for today’s Sunday Continue reading The DNA window at the King’s College Chapel at the Strand
A longstanding wish has become true – a useful graphical interface for R. While recent versions still had major problems on my Mac, the most recent nightly build works as expected, thanks Josh!
Having now a SSD in use for more than one year, here are my accumulated tweaks. The first one is Smart Sleep which greatly enhances sleeping/wakening time. Disabling the motion sensor (“sudo pmset -a sms 0”) doesn’t hurt but is isn’t really necessary. Mounting the SSD noatime , however, gives a measurable performance gain. And at the end, I dropped that RAM thingy as it breaks with every system update.
a screenshot from Pubmed without words
probably as good as an email that I received recently:
This is the final reminder of your registration.
THE ABOVE BARCODE CONTAINS YOUR BADGE AND TICKET INFORMATION!
Please be sure to PRINT out this e-mail and BRING it with you to the meeting. The barcode included on this reminder will speed you through the registration and materials pick-up area.
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Please consider the environment before printing this email.
I flew this night to San Francisco, having a chance to read some magazines in flight, including an interview of Stefan Klein with Peter Singer in ZEIT MAGAZIN yesterday. The interview has been done by Skype as Singer says “it is immoral to travel without serious reasons” – a classical Utilitarian perspective that does however not even stop him arguing Continue reading 4 tons of CO2
I have long been waiting for upgrading Papers 1.9 as it is getting so slow with 10,000+ PDFs; there are notorious bugs that were never fixed (just delete an entry and see what happens). With the big hype around Papers 2, I hoped that all these problems would be cured while I also urgently need OCR, annotation and citation management.
When reading at the new support forum at http://support.mekentosj.com/discussions/problems/3118-papers-2-going-back-to-papers-1 of all the glitches introduced instead, it is probably time to say good bye now to Mekentosj.
I have been reading now many times in nature genetics that a few newly found SNPs explain about half of the attributable risk by genes while I fear that this probably mixes up different epidemiological concepts.
The population attributable risk is usually defined as the reduction in incidence that would be observed if the population were entirely unexposed. This cannot be meant as I don’t know of any genetic study examining incidence so far. Continue reading 50% of all disease genes found, really?
A recent article on WPA hacking using the Amzon EC2 cloud computing facility let me wonder whether there couldn’t be more useful projects. For example gene-gene interaction testing would be nice – indeed somebody has already setup a possibility to use R: Robert Grossman, director at the Informatics at the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology. Great, many thanks!
What’s even better, a
… 60 Genomes dataset can be found here, as part of the public data that Bionimbus makes available to researchers. With the Bionimbus Community Cloud, the data is available via both the commodity Internet, as well as via high performance research networks, such as the National LambdaRail and Internet2 … If you are a member of the Bionimbus Community Cloud, then you don’t need to download the data but can compute over the data directly with Bionimbus. Currently, we are not making the Bionimbus Cloud generally available, but expect to do so beginning in approximately June, 2011.
Last Sunday night, I heard an interesting broadcast at Ö1 on the way back from St. Moritz “Nach dem Willen Gottes. Religion, Erziehung und Gewalt. Gestaltung: Sebastian Fleischer” while couldn’t find the song played during the last 30 seconds.
Finally, here is it, although the Nick Cave version on youtube is still another one than at the Ö1 broadcast. An email clarified it:
Continue reading God is in the house
2011 AAAAI Annual Meeting Handout
Session Number: 3523
Session Title: Vitamin D: Vitamin D Deficiency Causes Asthma -> CON
Session Start: 3/20/2011 12:45 AM
Matthias Wjst, Munich
Welcome to the third major symposium on vitamin D and asthma at the AAAAI. Continue reading Handout text 2011 AAAAI Seminar San Francisco Vitamin D deficiency
A new study in the AJRCCM shows that eosinophils are dispensable for allergic remodeling and immunity Continue reading I am confused but on a higher level
I have still dozens of Falk paper maps in my cabinet. With the small Garmin 60 CSX, however, that includes most US and European cities, I don’t need them anymore.
But what about more remote locations where conferences are now so often located? Continue reading For the travelling scientist
We have an interesting discussion here in Germany, how many sloppy citations are being allowed in a dissertation. Does plagiarism only start with central text passages? We all have signed a form like
Ich versichere, dass ich die Arbeit ohne fremde Hilfe und ohne Benutzung anderer als der angegebenen Quellen angefertigt habe und dass die Arbeit in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch keiner anderen Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen hat und von dieser als Teil einer Prüfungsleistung angenommen wurde. Alle Ausführungen, die wörtlich oder sinngemäß übernommen wurden, sind als solche gekennzeichnet.
which is rather clear: “I used only the cited references and nothing else.” Continue reading Plagiarism or sloppy citation?
I already wrote an earlier essay about science as crowd source enterprise. Funding initiatives and funding selection of scientific projects, however, have never been transparent to me (even with all the EU announcements and lobbying before setting out the large framework programmes).
Reading now at david-campbell.orgabout a photo project in Afghanistan Continue reading Science crowd funded?