The National Science Foundation just announced that the BEACON Science and Technology Center centered at Michigan State University was just funded. BEACON stands for "Bio/computational Evolution in Action Consortium" - you can check out the Web site here.
In my own nutshell, BEACON is focused on studying the evolution of …
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Does anyone have any experience with CloudStore, formerly known as KosmosFS? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudStore:
CloudStore (KFS, previously Kosmosfs) is Kosmix's C++ implementation of Google File System. ... CloudStore supports incremental scalability, replication, checksumming for data integrity, client side fail-over and access from C++, Java and Python.
The …
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My wife and I were talking with my USDA collaborator about some possible chicken research, and I asked about access to animals. His response? "Chickens are not a rate limiting factor."
Did you know that 1 million chickens are slaughtered per hour, on average, in the US? Wow.
--titus
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OK, so you have a genome -- let's say it's about 1gb in size -- and you want to do ChIP-seq on a transcription factor that you think binds ~1000 places in the genome. You've measured the specificity of the transcription factor and it seems to enrich about 10-fold over background (an …
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The last two weeks were pretty miserable, for some scientific/collaboration reasons as well as some personal reasons (visiting sick parents != fun). Two things that weren't miserable -- that were in fact quite fun -- were PyOhio and the Science 2.0 talks in Toronto.
PyOhio was a nice little community-based conference …
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I'd like to find an MSU student to report semi-monthly on python-dev. The student would be responsible for monitoring the python-dev mailing list and active PEPs, summarizing substantive discussions in a public forum, and integrating feedback from the community. This would be a 1 credit CSE independent study course (CSE …
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Just submitted this on Thursday:
Next generation sequencers are beginning to impact agricultural biology. Over the next few years, next generation sequencing will produce incredibly large datasets that will address structural (e.g., SNPs, CNVs, indels, methylation, translocations) and functional (e.g., RNA expression, transcription factor binding sites) variation in …read more
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