Archive for August, 2009

Calling for First Ignite Auckland Event

Invitation to all geeks in Auckland area, please joins us to organize very first Ignite Auckland event. Currently Auckland circle organizes the Pecha Kucha Nights on a regular basis, which is quite similar to the format of Ignite, but primarily [...]


Read Write Genetics


Project management in Computational Biology

In a recent PLoS Computational Biology article William Stafford Noble highlights few basic principles and strategies for carrying out computational biology experiments. The core guiding principle is simple: Someone unfamiliar with your project should be able to look at your [...]


Hadoop Visualization

This is a visualization of the data transfers inside a hadoop cluster. This is all Live data from a cluster at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.


Kolmogorov complexity with Python


Social Media in Science: There are Innovators and Then There are Laggards

I know it’s really frustrating to be a promoter or founder of a social media web site that want to engage the scientists. The whole idea of socializing the scientists using these website is not coming well and unfortunately scientists [...]


Dear scientists, thoda wish karo, dish karo

Unfortunately scientific community is not too much demanding. We live with low wages with minimal expectations, a conclusive proof is it pays more to do nothing than it does to get a PhD. We have ambitions, but not more than [...]


Benefits of data visualization are self-evident

Stephen Few of Visual Business Intelligence recently asked about true Stories related to the benefits of data visualization where data visualization has helped to gain important insights from scratch, I need real stories from you who use data visualization to [...]


The Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle


Decoding Synthetic Biology