News: ERCC Issues a Call to Arms Posted by Jeff Perkel [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 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The Human Interactome, Take 2 Posted by Jeff Perkel [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 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: We Came, We Saw, We Computed Posted by Jeff Perkel [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 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The Human Interactome: Published, but not Complete Posted by Jeff Perkel [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 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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