EN: Just a quick link belonging to my "let's-promote-OpenBSD"-postings: The company Echothrust published recently a series (1, 2 ,3) of short articles in which they describe how they use exclusive OpenBSD-based systems in their daily business. It is an informative introduction which clearly shows that OpenBSD is a reliable alternative on all application fronts.
[Via undeadly.org]
Update: The fourth and last part is online now.
2007-07-16
Metagenomics 2007 conference report - part 2
EN: As Jonathan has written already a nice overview of the Metagenomics 2007 conference (while I was spending my time exploring San Diego ... call me a slacker) and as the videos will be online soon, I will only post my take-home-messages:
- The recording and use of additional meta-information might be a key-factor for a better understanding of the sequence data. Fortunately more of this data is collected now.
- For me the gut metagenome analyzes are pretty promising projects. Masahira Hattori and Janet Jansson presented very interesting studies.
- A lot of tools that are developed for "classical" genomics cannot simply be applied in metagenomics. This has also to be explained to funding sources.
- Platforms like Camera, img/m and Megx are under heavy development at the moment to fulfill the needs of the community.
2007-07-13
iPhone pushes ebooks
EN: Since quite a while I use plucker to read books on my Treo, but would like to see many more book available in a digital form. Although I personally will not buy a iPhone but prefer an open alternative, I hope its popularity will bring finally a breakthrough of ebooks. This post on O'Reilly radar gives hope.
2007-07-12
Metagenomics 2007 conference report - part 1
EN: At the moment I am attending the Metagenomics 2007 conference in San Diego. Around 190 scientists from 12 countries came together to discuss recent results in metagenomics and related fields.
I will later post some notes I took at the talks (as least some of them). To get an overview what's going on here have a look at the program. The talks are also available as a webcast and (I guess) later downloadable.
Jonathan offered to ask questions if they are posted to him.
I will later post some notes I took at the talks (as least some of them). To get an overview what's going on here have a look at the program. The talks are also available as a webcast and (I guess) later downloadable.
Jonathan offered to ask questions if they are posted to him.
2007-07-06
Data sharing and citation rate
EN: A presentation by Heather Piwowar at Nature Precedings directed my attention to a PLoS ONE article about data sharing and its effect on the citation rate by her [1]. Now as we have a proof that publishing data increases the amount of citations, more people are hopefully motivated to do so. Unfortunately I think that some people lock their data as long as they can to avoid competition. A further publication is maybe more worth than some additional citations.
[1] Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate. Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB PLoS ONE. 2007; 2: e308
[1] Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate. Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB PLoS ONE. 2007; 2: e308
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