I gave a talk last Wednesday at U. Michigan in the DCMB program where I included a slide estimating how much DNA sequencing (in base pairs) was needed for good de novo assembly of sequences from various biological environments or problems. The slide was there to motivate the challenges of …
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This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
It's been fun to watch (and occasionally help drive) science moving online and taking advantage of the Web. Here are some of my favorite examples.
Simple, easy ways of sharing process abound …
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This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
The web represents an opportunity for a phase transition in terms of connectedness and openness in scientific practice, as in software development, and we're not taking much advantage of it. Why?
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This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
I've been reading Michael Nielsen's book Reinventing Discovery, which is an awesome and inspirational book about (among other things) accelerating scientific discovery using the Internet. Highly recommended.
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This is one of a bunch of posts on what I'm calling 'w4s' -- using the Web, and principles of the Web, to improve science. The others are:
The awesomeness we're experiencing, which provides some examples of current awesomeness in this area.
The challenges ahead, which covers some of the reasons …
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This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
I don't think I can devote myself to any big projects, but I do have a bunch of ideas for relatively small projects that I think could lead to worthwhile change.
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In his paper, Reproducible Research and Cloud Computing, Bill Howe asks:
What happens if you do all your work on a virtual machine hosted in the cloud? When it came time to publish, you might make a snapshot of the VM, make it public, and cite it in your paper …read more
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