Mailund on the Internet

Great talk (and great slides, but unfortunately not particularly well synchronized):

Hat tip Byte Size Biology.

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A day late, here is my pick of my favorite posts from last week.

Blogging

• Blogs firmly established as a mean of scientific communication (A blog around the clock)
• In which I kick my own ass (Ouroboros)

Copyright

• Can copyright evolve with the Internet? (The questionable authority)
• John Conyers and Open Access (Lessig)

Next generation sequencing

• The next generation dilemma: Large scale data analysis (Finchtalk)

Programming

• When is zero not a zero? (Revolutions)
• First look: Qt 4.5 rocks for rapid cross-platform development (Ars Technica)
• Applying a tracing JIT to an interpreter (PyPy status blog)

Research life

• Scandal: grant reviewers favor work that is “original,” “feasible” (John Hawks)

Statistics

• Describing descriptive studies using descriptive language (Statistical modeling)

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I’m starting a journal club for the computer scientists at BiRC.  Since it is me starting it up, I have egoistically chosen a subject I personally would like to learn more about.  Algorithms for Next Generation Sequencing assembly.

Now I don’t even know much about the “plain old” sequence assembly algorithms, so I want to start out with a few papers on that and then move to newer algorithms.

The only problem is that I don’t know which papers are important and which are not.

So if anyone have any ideas, please please let me know!

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An animation of the nanopore technology:

Thanks to Aminopop for mentioning it it.

Are we approaching the $1000 genome, or should we still be a bit pessimistic?

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If you are into next generation sequencing, then you might want to check out this video where Roald Forsberg presents CLC Bio’s Genomics Workbench.