Call for Papers -- Evolutionary Bioinformatics
As editor in chief of Evolutionary Bioinformatics, I recently blasted out a call for papers. The call is below, and also accessible here .
The Wall Lab's Blog at Harvard Medical School
connecting diseases through the phenotyic disease network
The definitions of diseases, especially complex multigenic diseases, are at best blurred. The phenotypic definition of Autism, for example, overlaps with many other disorders. Understanding how diseases relate to one another will not only improve definitions, but will have great impact on our understanding of molecular pathology of disease. This will turn into practical medical application through repurposing of research, and ultimately drugs.
Dennis Wall is a "scientist to watch"
recently an article about me by Kelly Rae Chi appeared in The Scientist.
autistic children express themselves in 3D with assistance from Google
Kids with autism express their creativity in 3D. Follow Project Spectrum by Google.
number of genome-wide association studies rising fast
328 genome wide association studies have been published to date according to HuGENavigator
skateboarding
recently CBMI's videographer, Kerry Foley, captured some righteous skating on film. Check it out.
New NLP tools
Biomedical informatics researchers at Mayo Clinic and IBM today launched a Web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium. The consortium is establishing the open-source space to promote past and current development efforts, including participation in information extraction from electronic medical records.
exponential times
An impressive, alarming, exciting video about the state of things past, present and future.
check it out here .