Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
After phylogenetics Microsoft patents personal data mining
I hope you remember that some time back Microsoft tried to patent clustering phylogenetics methods which was a socking news for the bioinformatics community as community used these methods for a long time without any restriction. Now Microsoft had patented [...]
Lightful Principles: Future of Graphical User Interfaces
Jayson Elliot talks about a new Lightful model for graphical user interface development. Jayson Elliot is a user experience designer, writer and speaker. Jayson’s Lightful model is based on following principles MODELESSThe same action, performed on the same object, never [...]
The Brain Observatory project takes on a herculean task of whole-brain atlas
An interesting project called the Brain Observatory is recently started with an aim to study the architecture of the human brain. Project which is hosted at University of California, San Diego, will be slicing the brain into thin histological sections [...]
A new big data Avatar
Seems like James Cameron‘s Avatar is setting all new standards for film industry. Cameron and his team used best of breed technology including new 3D stereoscopic digital formats and monitors. To handle unprecedented amount of data generated due to use [...]
Optical Cell 2 Duo lac operon: Bridging the gap between Bacteria and Yeast
Students from iGEM Harward team are using the optical communication to create a physically distributed lac operon between a bacteria and an yeast cell which normally occur within the same cell. Idea is to use the principles of synthetic biology [...]
Mackenzie Cowell's Fascination with Synthetic Biology
Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org, an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. Mackenzie was recently interviewed by MAKE [...]
Story of "Synthia" the (theoretical) human-made synthetic microbe
“The Story of Synthia” explains — in a cartoon — how some scientists are attempting to create synthetic “life.” By replacing the genome of a natural microbe with a human-made genome constructed from synthetic DNA, they hope to give birth [...]
Google's future scale computing
Forget about the Internet scale, seriously that is not enough for Google. Google engineers are now talking about future scale which means company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future. Google fellow Jeff Dean [...]
