Last week in the blogs
Genetics
- “Filled up with other books” (John Hawks)
- Scientists launch effort to sequence the DNA of 10,000 vertebrates (ScienceDaily)
- The genomic ark: 10,000 vertebrate genomes (Byte size biology)
- Complete Genomics produces a cheap — well, $5,000 — human genome (Ars Technica)
- First ever association study using whole genome sequences (Genetic future)
HPC
- High-performance computing technologies for genomics (Next generation sequencing)
- Setting up Xgrid (MacResearch)
Programming
- Complex networks in R (Michael Knudsen)
- Floating-point errors, explained (Revolutions)
- Python in the scientific world (Neopythonic)
- Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox to all (Ars Technica)
Science life
- What keeps me up at night (Uncertain principles)
- Distributed science, part 2 (Common knowledge)
Misc
- The Ares I-X rocket special (Starts with a bang)
- Anime film characters: do we perceive the intended race, or our own? (Cognitive Daily)
- Preserving our digital pre-history (Coding horror)
- Native language shapes the melody of newborn baby’s cry (Not exactly rocket science)
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