It's April in St. Louis, so it snowed yesterday. Moving around town one heard people comment on how silly the concept of "global warming" is when it snows in April. Hilarious! Those crazy scientists and their liberal agenda. Actually, it's sad. Sad how ignorant people are about science. Too late, scientists realized the error in using the phrase "global warming" and have changed it to "global climate change". The whole warming thing is stuck in... Full Post
Ross King, a computer scientist and biologist at Aberystwyth University, has created a robot that can develop and test scientific hypotheses. Specifically, it was given information about the yeast genome and genes in other organisms that were involved in metabolism, then tasked with finding genes involved in lysine production in baker's yeast. The robot, Adam, was able to generate a hypothesis and design experiments to test it. The research is published in the latest issue... Full Post
I have released a new version of lsgmake-gap, 0.13 (md5). This version puts the "ls" back in lsgmake-gap by adding the --bsub-options command-line option which allows the user to specify arbitrary options to bsub. So now you should be able to easily take advantage of all the power of LSF. Also, if you have had problems with job-name dependency trouble because of lsgmake-gap's reuse of job names when resubmitting a failed analysis, there is now... Full Post
There is an interview with Rick Wilson on GenomeWeb, Launch Pad for Rising Stars, that discusses his role in the birth of genome sequencing, what he looks for in a post doc, and some of the scientists who did their post doc at The Genome Center. Full Post
No doubt most of you have seen the back-and-forth between The Daily Show and CNBC, especially Jim Cramer (who was foolish enough to take the bait). If you haven't seen all the clips, they are worth a watch (below). One thing that does not come up in the discussion is the paradox of our current economic situation: the same people who told us a year ago that our economy was fine are now telling us... Full Post