Chris Anderson once infamously wrote The data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete, an opinion that I do not share. Eric Drexler on the other hand comes at this new age of data driven scien...
There are a select few people whose every word I try and absorb and chew on because I have great respect for their thinking and intelligence. Matt Wood is one of those people, and today he decided...
Software is really becoming the broader language of science. Even broader than mathematics, but we don’t really know how to fund it. Those are words from Ed Seidel, Director of the NSF’s Office of...
Scientists spend years collecting and generating increasing amounts data. The data ranges from raw instrument data, “finished” data (e.g. a genome sequence which is constructed after aligning all ...
Anyone who reads bbgm knows that I am not a fan of bureaucratic big companies and the current pharma model. So this bit from a talk by Stefan Loren and reported by In the Pipeline piqued my intere...
Over the next few months, I’ll be giving a bunch of talks about large scale data. I will be talking at Hadoop World about “Hadoop for Bioinformatics“, at a Cloud Computing for Hedge Funds and at S...
About 11 months ago, Andrew Su asked for some help on Friendfeed. He needed programming help related to the MediaWiki API and the Gene Wiki project. As you can see, one of the responses was from ...
In a recent episode of the Stack Overflow Podcast (I believe #66) Jeff and Joel talked about how in the early stages of designing Stack Overflow they made the decision that their UI would be Google...
And no, I’m not trying to make that case that academic labs should make drugs. If they want to try, then come on down. If they don’t, that’s fine, too – there’s a lot of important research to be do...
Image via Wikipedia Most of my professional life, I’ve worked in organizations with formal, long, software development processes, although in some there have been attempts at adopting agile ...
Image via Wikipedia I subscribe to a mailing list of foo camp alumni, and there was a question around tagging. About systems where tags are added by the creator vs. systems where the tags a...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife When _why disappeared from the web, there was an effort to come up with a distributed _why, by hosting his works on github and similar repositories. There...
When Hari and I started recording Coast to Coast Bio, we were not sure we'd make it to episode 10. While we've never been able to keep up the regular schedule we hoped to given our schedules, we'v...
Image via Wikipedia People outside the pharma industry rarely realize how difficult a task the drug discovery process is. But perhaps, even among scientists, there is a significant lack of ...
Image via Wikipedia Mike Driscoll continues his attack against XML for Big Data. He points out three reasons why XML and Big Data are strange bedfellows. XML spawns data bureacracy, which ...
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