Archive for April, 2009
Is Data a new defensibility?
Andrew Parker comments Data is the new defensibility. Many previous forms of defensibility have melted away: patents are completely disrespected and too costly to enforce, technology and algorithms can be reverse engineered by 2 students with a case of Raman [...]
DIADEM Challenge: Test Your Image Processing Skills
Neuronal morphology plays a crucial role in the information processing capabilities of neurons. Neuronal function closely depends on properties of neuronal morphology such as lengths and diameters. A typical neuron consists of soma (central part of the neuron), dendrites (cellular [...]
A four-column theory for the origin of the triplet code
In a latest Biology Direct paper Paul G Higgs proposed a ‘four-column’ theory for the origin of the genetic code. Theory suggest that subdivision of codon blocks gave rise to an optimized code. Unlike previously proposed coevolution theory where genetic [...]
Citation Trend Line For PLoS Journals
PLoS One trend lines are quite close to PLoS Computational Biology(CB), now this is very surprising to me and honestly I am very exited about this new development. Recently I was playing with Scopus Journal Analyzer, to find which journal [...]
Manipulating complex data sets with the hands
There is something fantastic about g-stalt project which is based on spatial operating environment g-speak. g-stalt is a next generation human computer interaction interface emerging from Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. Jamie Zigelbaum who is one of [...]
Interesting Papers 24 April 2009
Kuo et al. have conducted a neuroimaging study of subjects playing either dominance-solvable games or pure coordination games and found that how different brain regions showed the differential patterns (Intuition and Deliberation: Two Systems for Strategizing in the Brain). Dual-process [...]
Genomics Disillusionment
OK debate about the future of genomics research is still not over, after New York Times now it is Telegraph which carries a dreadful title One gene will not reveal all life’s secrets written by Steve Jones. You can find [...]
Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data-Video
Reference:Schmidt, M., & Lipson, H. (2009). Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data Science, 324 (5923), 81-85 DOI: 10.1126/science.1165893
Big data beats better algorithms
Anand Rajaraman wrote a series of posts about how more data usually beats better algorithms (1, 2, 3) on his blog. His discussion was mostly focused on web-scale data and he also posed some serious questions in following posts such [...]
Genomewide association studies- Where is Big Picture
Today’s New York Times health research section carries an interesting article Genes Show Limited Value in Predicting Diseases. Story is based on a set of commentaries appeared recently on online version of The New England Journal of Medicine (1, 2, [...]
