I'll second Personal Brain - its mind mapping software that allows uploads of files, etc. I find it a bit easier to get my 'stuff' into Brain than into Evernote... but I do use both...
I've been giving public transportation a shot - but I do think it is more expensive than driving.
I drive a '99 Honda Civic that gets great gas mileage, has ~ 125k miles on it, and is my 'go to' car for city driving. I drive to the Commuter Rail (about 4 miles - walking is possible, but I'd be a sweaty mess ), pay $4/day to park, then about $4.25 one way on the trip itself...
Driving is about... $40 a month, but that obviously doesn't include insurance, wear and tear, etc.
I'm still giving the commuter rail a shot - but the convenience of driving does win occasionally.
Coming from a data mining background, InforSense's platform allows you to not only manipulate your data, perform calculations (and data mining) but then visualize your results in an AJAX environment. You can call open source apps like R and Cytoscape directly from InforSense's workflow building application, so none of your pre-existing work gets discarded.
Actually, a company called algorithmic arts already has a Bio2MIDI program available, and you can actually go to mp3.com to listen to "genetic music" How cool is that!
Here's an update -- I used BLADE-ENC to simply encode a publicly available sequence from yeast from NCBI as FASTA into an mp3 formatted file
Can I copyright it now?
I work in biotech and some of the lawyers in my company actually brought this up at a meeting a few days ago. There's an original reference in a presigious journal: Nature-Biotechnology, where, at the end of the article, the author says that this is meant to be tongue in cheek....
Isn't it ridiculous? I personally just think that people skimmed the Nature article and then came to the wrong conclusions. DNA is just data, which I can convert to any format I want. If I gzip the latest Steven King novel, I've changed its format, can I copyright that? If I change the DNA so that it's converted into a jpeg, can I copyright that?
This whole topic is so ridiculous, I don't know how to begin...
Genes which have been worked on -- where people have elucidated their function, cloned the gene, figured out what it does -- I have no problem with patents on that... but just patenting because the format is different? Ridiculous!
I am a huge Gibson fan, but this episode was ATROCIOUS. It started out OK, and could have been much better perhaps if the 'mystery chick' was actually a rival hacker's avatar instead of the 'goddess'. I am really looking forward to the neuromancer flick....other than neuromancer.org does anyone know of any updates?
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I'll second Personal Brain - its mind mapping software that allows uploads of files, etc. I find it a bit easier to get my 'stuff' into Brain than into Evernote ... but I do use both...
I've been giving public transportation a shot - but I do think it is more expensive than driving. I drive a '99 Honda Civic that gets great gas mileage, has ~ 125k miles on it, and is my 'go to' car for city driving. I drive to the Commuter Rail (about 4 miles - walking is possible, but I'd be a sweaty mess ), pay $4/day to park, then about $4.25 one way on the trip itself... Driving is about ... $40 a month, but that obviously doesn't include insurance, wear and tear, etc.
I'm still giving the commuter rail a shot - but the convenience of driving does win occasionally.
Coming from a data mining background, InforSense's platform allows you to not only manipulate your data, perform calculations (and data mining) but then visualize your results in an AJAX environment. You can call open source apps like R and Cytoscape directly from InforSense's workflow building application, so none of your pre-existing work gets discarded.
Actually, a company called algorithmic arts already has a Bio2MIDI program available, and you can actually go to mp3.com to listen to "genetic music" How cool is that!
Here's an update -- I used BLADE-ENC to simply encode a publicly available sequence from yeast from NCBI as FASTA into an mp3 formatted file Can I copyright it now?
I work in biotech and some of the lawyers in my company actually brought this up at a meeting a few days ago. There's an original reference in a presigious journal: Nature-Biotechnology, where, at the end of the article, the author says that this is meant to be tongue in cheek....
Isn't it ridiculous? I personally just think that people skimmed the Nature article and then came to the wrong conclusions. DNA is just data, which I can convert to any format I want. If I gzip the latest Steven King novel, I've changed its format, can I copyright that? If I change the DNA so that it's converted into a jpeg, can I copyright that?
This whole topic is so ridiculous, I don't know how to begin...
Genes which have been worked on -- where people have elucidated their function, cloned the gene, figured out what it does -- I have no problem with patents on that... but just patenting because the format is different? Ridiculous!
I am a huge Gibson fan, but this episode was ATROCIOUS. It started out OK, and could have been much better perhaps if the 'mystery chick' was actually a rival hacker's avatar instead of the 'goddess'. I am really looking forward to the neuromancer flick....other than neuromancer.org does anyone know of any updates?
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