Archive for January, 2009
Blurring the distinction between web and desktop
CodeLathe has just released a new personal web application platform named as Tonido. A Tonido application or instance runs locally on user computer and unlike normal desktop applications Tonido’s user interface is accessed through a web browser. Tonido application allows [...]
Systems Biology: Big is Good
Systems biology involves a combination of mathematical modelling and quantitative experimentation. One of the main goals of systems biology is to build mechanistic mathematical models of biological systems to make valuable predictions about their system-level behaviors. Mechanistic models are based [...]
2D:4D Ratio-Here is why Obama is aggressive
If you combine both logic and aggression to life’s endeavors, success will come knocking at your door. Accept it or not Barack Obama is one of the most aggressive American president, and there are many other reasons to believe that [...]
Systems Biology: Exploring Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) Space of Drug Candidates
Pharmaceutical companies are facing ultimate challenge to increase efficiency of drug discovery pipeline to keep up with market demands. Failure of clinical candidates as well as withdrawal of approved and marketed drugs due the undesired effects , or so-called adverse [...]
We R Parallelizing
R is one of the highly used programming language for statistical computing in biology, particularly in area of bioinformatics where Bioconductor framework has been used to solve heterogeneous problems ranging from microarray data analysis to genome annotation. R is open [...]
Lets Elucidate the Cell
Well this is my very first post on Cellucidate, a new web-based computational environment focused on cell signaling research introduced by Boston based Plectix BioSystems, Inc. I must accept that Cellucidate web interface is pretty cool, and stress is not [...]
Manually Curated Databases- How much reliable they are?
One of recent studies published in Nature Methods reveals that manually curated protein-protein interaction (PPI) datasets can be highly error-prone and possibly of lower quality than previously thought. Study determined that the portion of reported interactions that are valid (and [...]
Einstein and Peer review
A Small story about Albert Einstein (adopted from Three myths about scientific peer review, an excellent article by Michael Nielsen about dark side of peer review)- Albert Einstein, who wasn’t just an outstanding scientist, but was also a prolific scientist, [...]
Chem4Word Project
For those who are familiar with MDL ISIS for Excel this may be interesting to know that Microsoft is developing chemistry authoring extension for Microsoft Office under Chem4Word Project. MDL ISIS for Excel is a spreadsheet-based application that enables scientists [...]
