Check out Tom Sterling's latest book "Beowulf Clustering with Windows" available at Amazon. Tom is the Beowulf co-creator and has put out two excellent Beowulf books recently. The other is "Beowulf Clustering with Linux".
Also, the Cornell Theory Center has been very successful with Windows computational clusters. They have plenty of info online.
Drop the attitude. Bioinformatics existed and the bio-geeks were doing it before there was such a word, and before you got your *impressive* double major as an undergrad. I can tell you right now, from experience, that you don't deserve an O'Reilly book deal (which won't make you rich anyway) nor do you have the experience to boss around bio-geeks. Hope you paid attention in math class, cuz you ain't going far in science.--O'Reilly Bioinformatics Author
I highly recommend "Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins" by Baxevanis and Ouellette-published by Wiley-Interscience; "Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols" by Misener and Krawetz-published by Hamana Press; and "Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach" by Baldi and Bruank-published by MIT Press.
Most of you have been easily duped. All blood cells, including white blood cells and (macrophages)the cells that gobble up invading organisms and other debris), come from the bone marrow after birth (before that they come from the liver). Some bone marrow stem cells naturally mature into macrophages, which then migrate and mature further into specialized macrophages, localized to certain regions of the body. In the brain, these specialized macrophages are called microglia. So, bone marrow cells are constantly maturing and migrating to the brain and central nervous system to become microglia and patrol those regions. Concluding that these tagged cells are neurons without reporting any other neuronal specific markers is ludicrous and would be thrown out of any peer-reviewed journal.---Glen Otero, Ph.D.
"Bad Boy of Immunology"
What do you think funded the Internet from DoD's DARPA to the National Science Foundation? Tax dollars. Are you trying to say that you haven't benefited from the Internet and the rest of the resulting technology? If you think hard enough you'll find that many things that make your life better in addition to your myopic, self-centered highways, are funded with tax$. Chances are that any medicine you have taken was originally developed in academia with tax $. dollars .
What's RedHat's Center for Open Source (RHCOS) doing with its $8 million? Their mission statement clearly states that the cash is to be used for educational and scientific projects. It sounds like they should be funding exactly this sort of thing. You would think that RedHat would be very interested in this opportunity. Well, as a matter of fact they are. I have been in contact with Matthew Szulik (RedHat CEO and Prez). He and RedHat have expressed their support for funding bioinformatics/genomics software via RHCOS and possibly other means. Why haven't they done anything about it yet? Well, like most corporations, they put the onus on the little guy with the ideas (me) to tell them exactly what to do. Unfortunately, without a succinct, professional business plan, I don't think any more progress can be made. This is doubly important in light of the fact that the RHCOS grant submission procedure doesn't even exist yet. Anyone interested in helping me flesh out an open source, bioinformatics/genome analysis software, business plan to submit to RedHat should contact me at glennie@san.rr.com.
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Check out Tom Sterling's latest book "Beowulf Clustering with Windows" available at Amazon. Tom is the Beowulf co-creator and has put out two excellent Beowulf books recently. The other is "Beowulf Clustering with Linux".
Also, the Cornell Theory Center has been very successful with Windows computational clusters. They have plenty of info online.
Drop the attitude. Bioinformatics existed and the bio-geeks were doing it before there was such a word, and before you got your *impressive* double major as an undergrad. I can tell you right now, from experience, that you don't deserve an O'Reilly book deal (which won't make you rich anyway) nor do you have the experience to boss around bio-geeks. Hope you paid attention in math class, cuz you ain't going far in science.--O'Reilly Bioinformatics Author
I highly recommend "Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins" by Baxevanis and Ouellette-published by Wiley-Interscience; "Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols" by Misener and Krawetz-published by Hamana Press; and "Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach" by Baldi and Bruank-published by MIT Press.
Most of you have been easily duped. All blood cells, including white blood cells and (macrophages)the cells that gobble up invading organisms and other debris), come from the bone marrow after birth (before that they come from the liver). Some bone marrow stem cells naturally mature into macrophages, which then migrate and mature further into specialized macrophages, localized to certain regions of the body. In the brain, these specialized macrophages are called microglia. So, bone marrow cells are constantly maturing and migrating to the brain and central nervous system to become microglia and patrol those regions. Concluding that these tagged cells are neurons without reporting any other neuronal specific markers is ludicrous and would be thrown out of any peer-reviewed journal.---Glen Otero, Ph.D. "Bad Boy of Immunology"
What do you think funded the Internet from DoD's DARPA to the National Science Foundation? Tax dollars. Are you trying to say that you haven't benefited from the Internet and the rest of the resulting technology? If you think hard enough you'll find that many things that make your life better in addition to your myopic, self-centered highways, are funded with tax$. Chances are that any medicine you have taken was originally developed in academia with tax $. dollars .
What's RedHat's Center for Open Source (RHCOS) doing with its $8 million? Their mission statement clearly states that the cash is to be used for educational and scientific projects. It sounds like they should be funding exactly this sort of thing. You would think that RedHat would be very interested in this opportunity. Well, as a matter of fact they are. I have been in contact with Matthew Szulik (RedHat CEO and Prez). He and RedHat have expressed their support for funding bioinformatics/genomics software via RHCOS and possibly other means. Why haven't they done anything about it yet? Well, like most corporations, they put the onus on the little guy with the ideas (me) to tell them exactly what to do. Unfortunately, without a succinct, professional business plan, I don't think any more progress can be made. This is doubly important in light of the fact that the RHCOS grant submission procedure doesn't even exist yet. Anyone interested in helping me flesh out an open source, bioinformatics/genome analysis software, business plan to submit to RedHat should contact me at glennie@san.rr.com.