I'm giving a talk at XLDB 2012 tomorrow, and I thought I'd post a bunch of accompanying links and discussion, since this audience is pretty far away from my normal audience ;).
Here's the talk itself, on slideshare: Streaming and Compression Approaches for Terascale Biological Sequence Data Analysis
Acknowledgements (slide 3 …
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I've been invited to present at the Extremely Large Databases (XLDB) 2012 conference as a practicing biologist who occasionally speaks with physicists, and I'm trying to come up with something to say that will explain why physicists and biologists don't often collaborate all that well.
Here are some guesses.
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Course page at: http://ged.msu.edu/courses/2010-fall-cse-891/:
This course will introduce biologists to computational thinking, practical computational techniques, and research topics in computational evolution. The course will consist of three intensive hands-on 5-week modules: computational competence in UNIX; data mining and hypothesis generation using the Avida digital life …read more
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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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So, I "organized" a Biology Birds of a Feather at SciPy 2007. This mainly consisted of posting about it and then trying to write stuff on a white board while keeping abreast of the conversation. About 15 people attended.
I didn't get everyone's name and in any case I don't …
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To get people talking, I've created a "biology-in-python" mailing list. You can subscribe here: http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/biology-in-python, and you can post to it at bip@lists.idyll.org once you're a member.
This list is a tool/package/library-agnostic list, for people who use Python to work …
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