Last week in the blogs
Biology and evolution
- Gene regulation and its evolution (John Hawks)
- Why ligers are huge (GeneExpression)
HPC
- AMD submits GPU OpenCL implementation for certification (Softpedia)
- AMD aims to be first with CPU/GPU OpenCL programming (EETimes)
- OpenCL Tutorial – Questions and answers to episode four (MacResearch)
- When HPC will not be the HPC you remember (bbgm)
Genetics
- Saami not descended from Swedish hunter-gathers (GeneExpression)
- A brief guide to DNA sequencing (Ars Technica)
Math and physics
- Dark matter part I: How much matter is there? (Starts with a bang)
- Dark matter part II: How much normal matter is there? (Starts with a bang)
- Information vs meaning (Good math, bad math)
Programming
- The duct tape programmer (Joel on software)
- ggplot2 and the grammar of graphics (Revolutions)
Research life
- The science inside… (Mental indigestion)
- Coffee facilitated the age of enlightenment (Art Diamond)
- Scientists: glorified bureaucrats? (Skeptic wonder)
- Bioinformatics: A recipe-based approach is biggest curse (Fisheye perspective)
Scientific publishing
- Time for computer science to grow up? (Confessions of a science librarian)
- There is no single future for scientific journals (Michael Nielsen)
- Article-level download metrics — What are they good for? (PLoS)
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