Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology
As I mentioned in my previous posts that for next few days we are going to cover various interesting activities related to iGEM 2009 and selected student projects will be featured on the Fisheye Perspective blog. Next in our list [...]
Public perception and Synthetic Reality
If synthetic biology fulfills its promise it has potential to replace the world created by Darwinian evolution with one created by us. At least that’s what Michael Specter’s recent story published in September 28th issue of The New Yorker suggests. [...]
We essentially want to create a drug factory in your nose
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2009 Jamboree dates are coming closer and for next few days we are going to look around the wikis to learn more about what different teams are doing this year. iGEM 2009 is bigger [...]
Guaranteeing broadband access
Although this news is already hot in air I could not resist to post it again. According to reports Finland is the first country to make broadband access a legal right. Starting next July, every person in Finland will have [...]
Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations
Christopher Collins has developed this new visualization technique which can reveal interesting set relations in data using isocontours over existing visualizations. Following is the abstract of the Bubble Sets paper accepted in InfoVis ’09 While many data sets contain multiple [...]
Is Business Intelligence too sexy?
Business Intelligence (BI) is facing a significant challenge according to one of the industry’s leading thinkers and its ‘sexiness’ is causing the problem. Lecturer in Information Technology at Monash University, Mr. Peter O’Donnell suggests that major BI software vendors’ marketing [...]
IBM DNA Transistor: Towards the nanoscale DNA sequencer
IBM today announced an ambitious effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer. In following video IBM Researchers Stas Polonsky and Gustavo A Stolovitzky explain how project could improve throughput and bring cost as low as $100 to $1,000. Basically idea [...]
Google Wave In a Nutshell
Have you gotten your Wave invite yet? In either case have a look on this introductory text about Google Wave from O’Reilly’s upcoming book Google Wave: Up and Running. Article provides a superb overview of Google Wave and it has [...]
Blending Google Chrome with Google Apps
via @alfalcon ( http://bit.ly/iHtNN,http://bit.ly/KPEEl)
Helicos' True Single Molecule Sequencing
Helicos’ True Single Molecule Sequencing(tSMS)™ technology helps researchers to directly sequence the single molecules of DNA or RNA, significantly increases the speed of sequencing, while also decreasing the cost. Recently it was used for single-molecule DNA sequencing of a viral [...]
