NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 30th September 2005 07:46 PM GMT] Microarray data quality is an issue that has been covered extensively in The Scientist (see, for instance, here and here). The basic issue is this: how reliable are the sometimes-subtle changes in gene expression levels these experiments yield, and how reproducible are they.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 28th September 2005 06:15 PM GMT] Four weeks after Erich Wanker?s team published its human interactome paper, Marc Vidal?s group at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has followed suit.
In today?s (Sept. 28) online edition of Nature Vidal?s team reports its analysis of interactions between 8,100 or so human open reading frames corresponding to some 7,200... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 16th September 2005 04:36 PM GMT] I never thought I'd say this, but I participated in a flash mob last night (Sept. 15). We didn?t congregate on a street corner and start chanting or anything like that. Instead, we solved a molecular dynamics problem.
?Flash mob computing?, the brainchild of Patrick J. Miller, of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, is a way to build ad hoc supercomputers from unused desktop and laptop computers. Arrayed in the M. Carey Thomas Library at... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 13th September 2005 05:55 PM GMT] It has been said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Functional genomicists took that proverbial step earlier this month when a group led by Erich Wanker, of Berlin?s Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, reported the first yeast two-hybrid-derived human interactome (or protein-protein interaction) network in the September 1 online issue of Cell.
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