In addition to the sequencing being transcribed, it has been analyzed.
variations in 310 genes known to cause disease, were found.
with 23 which are specifically known to increase the risk of disease
Future analyses will go much further.
www.SNPedia.com is a resource to help unravel the effects of these variations. We will cross reference the Watson and Venter genomes as soon as they are actually released. To date, the genomes have not been released.
If anyone can point to where these specific sequences can be found I'd welcome it. In both cases I think the respective journals are holding the sequence until publication.
Others have mentioned a photo ipod with an adapter to upload directly from your camera memory card. I would strongly agree. Before this was an option, I used an XS drive. But if possible, put plenty of photos of your family and home on the ipod before you leave. People will open up to you more quickly and warmly and perhaps invite you into their homes, when you can show a few bits of yours.
For any of the cheaper countries, forget the laptop. Without net its of limited value. If they have net, they have machines.
While I applaud gmail as a huge step forward, its primary contribution was additional space. Since you "haven't tried another since and doubt I ever will" I would just like to give kudos to the Yahoo Mail team. The new yahoo mail beta is chock full of ajax goodness and really blows away gmail. For the moment. The net seems to be a healthy ecosystem. I'm grateful to SourceForge for what they've created. But the comments here make it clear there is room for improvement. Perhaps google is just well funded enough to do a better job. Either way I guarantee we'll all be better off for their efforts.
is a spectacular book on most of the underlying technologies. Although I've only read the first edition, I don't recall it talking about spidering/webcrawling. Instead it starts with building a simple index, and builds through all the refinements (ie stemming, etc) until you've built a serious workhorse for mining text documents. Its definitely at the core of what a search engine does,
From some recent experiences with the mpiblast project, and some much older work at llnl I've had better experiences with mpich as being more reliable than lam (one man's limited opinion, a data point not a rule). Also I think it should be more clear that mpiblast is perfectly usable in numa architectures. On first read of the parent I thought this was being ruled out.
When debugging in parallel Totalview is a godsend, or was the last time I needed/could afford it.
For geek points I'd have to agree that the worms remind me of Sarlacc.
I'd agree that robotics tends to be too long term, and complicated.
I competed in programming contests in middle school, high school and college and it was a great experience.
At one of them the guy presenting the award wasn't part of the school system. He was just some programmer who wanted to give back. I'm not sure quite how he got involved, but he gave a cash award out of his own pocket. On monday, kids who normally would have snarled 'dork' were actually quite congratulatory when I was able to explain I had won $100 for programming.
Your biggest investment will be your time, but a small cash prize goes a long way towards eliminating the geek factor. You can't really avoid that it will be the geeks who come to something like this. But if you can help them walk out with a sense that maybe it isn't such a bad thing. Being a geek tends to pay well, and if more kids learned that earlier, a few more might work a bit harder in school (or more valuably, outside school).
Make sure that the problems play to different skills (math, physics, music) to ensure that teams with a breadth of skills do well. Do what you can to minimize the effect of having one great programmer and 3 kids just sitting there watching him/her type. Doing so will help ensure that a few kids who only think they're good at math get pulled along, and may see additional opportunities.
And if you really want to give back, consider offering a paid summer internship to members of the winning team.
ACM should have lots of old problem sets online. Don't just reuse these, as good teams will have practiced against these. But use it as a jumping off point for creating your own.
The part that seemed most hollywood was the bit about the inspector general auditor ending up dead in valdosta. I've been unable to find anything to validate the death, but florida does have a real inspector general auditor named Mr. Raymond Lemme
Just search for his name in this document.
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/businessmodel/pdf/Augus t%202003.pdf
I suspect a death like the one described would make some news. Can anybody find it?
Until this article was published, 'junk dna' would be considered the correct term for this region. Broadly speaking, the term suggests that there is no known function for the region. We don't know much beyon "is a region is a coding region?" and "is a region regulatory?". Now this region can be classified as regulatory, but it uses a mechanism never before observed. That is news.
Much more information can be found in this article taken from pubmed.
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Homer - "So? Your mother paid for it."
Bart - "Doesn't she get her money from you?"
Homer - "And I get my money from grease, what's the problem?"
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http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/ is a wonderful comparison of DNA to code
There are 4 snps known to have an influence http://www.snpedia.com/index.php?title=Rs1446109
- variations in 310 genes known to cause disease, were found.
- with 23 which are specifically known to increase the risk of disease
Future analyses will go much further.www.SNPedia.com is a resource to help unravel the effects of these variations. We will cross reference the Watson and Venter genomes as soon as they are actually released. To date, the genomes have not been released.
If anyone can point to where these specific sequences can be found I'd welcome it. In both cases I think the respective journals are holding the sequence until publication.Others have mentioned a photo ipod with an adapter to upload directly from your camera memory card. I would strongly agree. Before this was an option, I used an XS drive. But if possible, put plenty of photos of your family and home on the ipod before you leave. People will open up to you more quickly and warmly and perhaps invite you into their homes, when you can show a few bits of yours. For any of the cheaper countries, forget the laptop. Without net its of limited value. If they have net, they have machines.
While I applaud gmail as a huge step forward, its primary contribution was additional space.
Since you "haven't tried another since and doubt I ever will" I would just like to give kudos to the Yahoo Mail team. The new yahoo mail beta is chock full of ajax goodness and really blows away gmail. For the moment. The net seems to be a healthy ecosystem. I'm grateful to SourceForge for what they've created. But the comments here make it clear there is room for improvement. Perhaps google is just well funded enough to do a better job. Either way I guarantee we'll all be better off for their efforts.
I think a lot of the developers on /. would digg codesermon.org. 15 minute talks on a single programming topic.
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is a spectacular book on most of the underlying technologies. Although I've only read the first edition, I don't recall it talking about spidering/webcrawling. Instead it starts with building a simple index, and builds through all the refinements (ie stemming, etc) until you've built a serious workhorse for mining text documents. Its definitely at the core of what a search engine does,
From some recent experiences with the mpiblast project, and some much older work at llnl I've had better experiences with mpich as being more reliable than lam (one man's limited opinion, a data point not a rule). Also I think it should be more clear that mpiblast is perfectly usable in numa architectures. On first read of the parent I thought this was being ruled out. When debugging in parallel Totalview is a godsend, or was the last time I needed/could afford it. For geek points I'd have to agree that the worms remind me of Sarlacc.
Eclipse is excellent, but requires a decent machine.
I competed in programming contests in middle school, high school and college and it was a great experience.
At one of them the guy presenting the award wasn't part of the school system. He was just some programmer who wanted to give back. I'm not sure quite how he got involved, but he gave a cash award out of his own pocket. On monday, kids who normally would have snarled 'dork' were actually quite congratulatory when I was able to explain I had won $100 for programming.
Your biggest investment will be your time, but a small cash prize goes a long way towards eliminating the geek factor. You can't really avoid that it will be the geeks who come to something like this. But if you can help them walk out with a sense that maybe it isn't such a bad thing. Being a geek tends to pay well, and if more kids learned that earlier, a few more might work a bit harder in school (or more valuably, outside school).
Make sure that the problems play to different skills (math, physics, music) to ensure that teams with a breadth of skills do well. Do what you can to minimize the effect of having one great programmer and 3 kids just sitting there watching him/her type. Doing so will help ensure that a few kids who only think they're good at math get pulled along, and may see additional opportunities.
And if you really want to give back, consider offering a paid summer internship to members of the winning team.
ACM should have lots of old problem sets online. Don't just reuse these, as good teams will have practiced against these. But use it as a jumping off point for creating your own.
Coral cache link.
Why doesn't slashdot do this automatically yet?
The part that seemed most hollywood was the bit about the inspector general auditor ending up dead in valdosta. I've been unable to find anything to validate the death, but florida does have a real inspector general auditor named Mr. Raymond Lemme Just search for his name in this document.s t%202003.pdf
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/businessmodel/pdf/Augu
I suspect a death like the one described would make some news. Can anybody find it?
Much more information can be found in this article taken from pubmed.
Stealth regulation: biological circuits with small RNA switches
Bart - "Dad, that bacon cost $24!"
Homer - "So? Your mother paid for it."
Bart - "Doesn't she get her money from you?"
Homer - "And I get my money from grease, what's the problem?"