Also, almost all biomedical research is carried out by either people with an MD/PhD or as a collaboration between MDs and PhDs or some combo of the two. It is most often a case of bench science meeting the clinic.
Biomedical research is the juncture between clinical research (say human trials of a drug) and more basic research (say an animal model of a disease). For example, a promising compound that slows tumor growth in an animal model of cancer might be applied to human cells of the same type of cancer grown in culture (as opposed to actually giving the compound to living patients.)
Making a living in biochemistry for 15 years and a combo of software/life science (bioinformatics) for the last 5-6 years, I can tell you that going from biochemistry to software engineering is much easier than going from software engineering to biochemistry. I have seen at least a dozen transitions both ways and bar none, the former always goes better than the latter. Life science is not just a matter of understanding organisms, it is a matter of serious critical thinking. That ability can be applied across a very broad range of disciplines. Just like physicists working for financial institutions.
Until there are defined protocols for identification of new genes, or processing of data, there will be no ready made products for them.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when you try to do this: You get a biologist, a bioinformatician, an object/data modeler and a DBA (and 20 other people of various disciplines) in a room and they spend years concocting the 'perfect' set of protocols/models/standards. They attempt (and fail repeatedly) to create a model that is all encompassing for whatever process they are dealing with. GEML, MIAME, MAGE, etc - they are all dismal failures. MIAME is a perfect example - the M stands for minimal but MIAME is a horribly complex object model that, in my mind, is worthless.
Most useful open source bioinformatics software is going to be geared toward biologists with at least some programming and unix skills. A lot of it was written by bioinformaticians which tend to lean more toward the informatics than the bio. They get more caught up in the technical aspects of the feild rather than the biology of the problem looking to be addressed. Unfortunately, the same can be said about most commercial bioinformatics software as well.
On the flip side, when people more interested in the biology than the technology write software, they tend to write just enough to get the job done and then stop. Software from this camp is often buggy and has a bad UI or no UI at all. It gets the job done, but only if you know exactly how to use it.
Anyway, you might want to take a look at R - http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/. It's more geared towards statistics but it does have some protein modules.
I had a similar experience. I work in bioinformatics and at one small company I was considering joining presented me with a non-compete that essentially barred me from working in any life-science or computer related field for two years. It was ridiculous. It covered areas of science that neither I nor they had any expertise in whatsoever. I think small companies sometimes get their lawyer to write these things and it becomes a collaboration between two people (employer and lawyer) who don't really know anything about non-competes. They end up with something outrageously restrictive.
They are ready to drop everything and head out the door at 5pm Friday (provided there are no "production issues") and not think about computers again until 9am Monday.
There is something to be said about that. For me, computers are M-F (hobby stuff at night), and weekends are for anything but.
The search is completely weak if you search for more than one word. You have to search for an uncommon word that you know was in the summary. Try 1979 and you find it (this story, the dupe is third in the list.) By the way, search engines are very complex so what do expect here?
The simple, old attacks are sometimes the most dangerous because you start to assume there's no problem with them. You forget about them.
If you forget about them, then you aren't checking your logs. If you aren't checking your logs, well, maybe you shouldn't be admining a box with services such as ssh open to the world.
Too bad all you Slashbots won't be reading Harry Potter due to your god's utterences. I'm sure he probably has some nice poetry or something on his site to ease the pain.
So there's two sets of people, one on either side of the screen. All wearing headphones, seeing different things, hearing different things, and not speaking?
If this sounds appealing to you, if this is something you think you would want, then seek help. I'm not trying to insult you and I'm not kidding. Seek help. Now.
Oh, wait, he's only producing. I guess it might not suck. Except that it will. I mean seriously, live action transformers? Forget the live action part. Transformers? Come on.
I looked on itunes and didn't see any bulk discounts. The gift cards are for a set amount of money to spend at itunes, not a certain number of songs. I would assume the give-a-aways are these gift cards. Besides, it would be in Apple's interest to value it as high as possible so they can get the reverse of what the winner will get - a write-off.
Not sure I'd want to win this. You get what "$10K" worth of music, $3K worth of ipods, probably a grand for the concert stuff. Boom - you owe the IRS 20% of $14000.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, almost all biomedical research is carried out by either people with an MD/PhD or as a collaboration between MDs and PhDs or some combo of the two. It is most often a case of bench science meeting the clinic.
What, exactly, is "biomedicine?"
Biomedical research is the juncture between clinical research (say human trials of a drug) and more basic research (say an animal model of a disease). For example, a promising compound that slows tumor growth in an animal model of cancer might be applied to human cells of the same type of cancer grown in culture (as opposed to actually giving the compound to living patients.)
Making a living in biochemistry for 15 years and a combo of software/life science (bioinformatics) for the last 5-6 years, I can tell you that going from biochemistry to software engineering is much easier than going from software engineering to biochemistry. I have seen at least a dozen transitions both ways and bar none, the former always goes better than the latter. Life science is not just a matter of understanding organisms, it is a matter of serious critical thinking. That ability can be applied across a very broad range of disciplines. Just like physicists working for financial institutions.
Until there are defined protocols for identification of new genes, or processing of data, there will be no ready made products for them.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when you try to do this: You get a biologist, a bioinformatician, an object/data modeler and a DBA (and 20 other people of various disciplines) in a room and they spend years concocting the 'perfect' set of protocols/models/standards. They attempt (and fail repeatedly) to create a model that is all encompassing for whatever process they are dealing with. GEML, MIAME, MAGE, etc - they are all dismal failures. MIAME is a perfect example - the M stands for minimal but MIAME is a horribly complex object model that, in my mind, is worthless.
Most useful open source bioinformatics software is going to be geared toward biologists with at least some programming and unix skills. A lot of it was written by bioinformaticians which tend to lean more toward the informatics than the bio. They get more caught up in the technical aspects of the feild rather than the biology of the problem looking to be addressed. Unfortunately, the same can be said about most commercial bioinformatics software as well.
On the flip side, when people more interested in the biology than the technology write software, they tend to write just enough to get the job done and then stop. Software from this camp is often buggy and has a bad UI or no UI at all. It gets the job done, but only if you know exactly how to use it.
Anyway, you might want to take a look at R - http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/. It's more geared towards statistics but it does have some protein modules.
Because the slashcoders worked overtime to ban posting to slashdot from as many tor servers as they could find.
You can't post to this page.
And they accept donated hardware. FreeBSD is one:
http://www.freebsd.org/donations/
You can get a tax deductionn too.
From 'oh you can click the text and it takes you to another page?' to surfing porn all within about an hour. 1993?
I had a similar experience. I work in bioinformatics and at one small company I was considering joining presented me with a non-compete that essentially barred me from working in any life-science or computer related field for two years. It was ridiculous. It covered areas of science that neither I nor they had any expertise in whatsoever. I think small companies sometimes get their lawyer to write these things and it becomes a collaboration between two people (employer and lawyer) who don't really know anything about non-competes. They end up with something outrageously restrictive.
Isn't this something you should have looked into first? I mean before you almost have it approved?
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
Oh, what? Dupe checking in Slashcode?
They are ready to drop everything and head out the door at 5pm Friday (provided there are no "production issues") and not think about computers again until 9am Monday.
There is something to be said about that. For me, computers are M-F (hobby stuff at night), and weekends are for anything but.
The search is completely weak if you search for more than one word. You have to search for an uncommon word that you know was in the summary. Try 1979 and you find it (this story, the dupe is third in the list.) By the way, search engines are very complex so what do expect here?
The simple, old attacks are sometimes the most dangerous because you start to assume there's no problem with them. You forget about them.
If you forget about them, then you aren't checking your logs. If you aren't checking your logs, well, maybe you shouldn't be admining a box with services such as ssh open to the world.
My experience is about the same. Our marketing site, which is aimed at life scientists, is averaging about 25+% firefox.
Too bad all you Slashbots won't be reading Harry Potter due to your god's utterences. I'm sure he probably has some nice poetry or something on his site to ease the pain.
So there's two sets of people, one on either side of the screen. All wearing headphones, seeing different things, hearing different things, and not speaking?
If this sounds appealing to you, if this is something you think you would want, then seek help. I'm not trying to insult you and I'm not kidding. Seek help. Now.
I turn the TV off when I want to socialize.
What about sound?
Holy SHIT!!! We didn't think of that. Better come up with a solution quick. How about headphones? Yeah, that will work.
Sincerely,
Sharp R&D
Oh, wait, he's only producing. I guess it might not suck. Except that it will. I mean seriously, live action transformers? Forget the live action part. Transformers? Come on.
Oooo, you know it will be good then.
Proof that ICANN is staffed by idiots.
Are 10,000 songs automagically worth $10k?
I looked on itunes and didn't see any bulk discounts. The gift cards are for a set amount of money to spend at itunes, not a certain number of songs. I would assume the give-a-aways are these gift cards. Besides, it would be in Apple's interest to value it as high as possible so they can get the reverse of what the winner will get - a write-off.
Not sure I'd want to win this. You get what "$10K" worth of music, $3K worth of ipods, probably a grand for the concert stuff. Boom - you owe the IRS 20% of $14000.
They just representin'. Gotta keep gettin' them mad props or no one on the street will respect 'em.
Sell your $200,000 house in New York and buy an identical one with a bigger lawn in Terrace Bay for $20,000.
So festering crack houses only cost $20,000 in Terrace Bay?