http://biowhat.com Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:58:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After doing a fresh install of OSX Leopard on my Mac and having to re-familiarize with some of my Biostatistics/Microarray education background it was time do a fresh install of R on my machine. R is a freely available statistical programming language modeled after S programming language. Matthew Keller, a ... http://biowhat.com/2007/12/17/rrrrrrrr/ This is my third MIA post and I'd like to think that taking time to finish my Master of Bioinformatics degree, get a job, move, and get engaged would be suitable excuses for my lack of posting. But who knows, maybe I'm just not cut out to be a ... http://biowhat.com/2007/12/11/mia-the-trilogy/ I'm in the process of developing an application that utilizes information from protein-protein interaction databases. One specific database I am working with is BIND, the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database. As my application will be looking at a large number of genes I had to figure out ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/21/bind-and-soap/ As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm currently working on a new look for the site. This entire week I was constantly changing the design. Realizing that I may be causing some inconvenience to my readers, I decided to go "old school" and set up a local ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/17/lamp-and-wordpress/ biowhat.com is officially validated! This all started with me trying fix my sidebar for IE browsers <= 6.0. For some reason the sidebar drops to the bottom of the page after all the content. While searching for a solution, I ran into a site that inspects the code of ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/15/a-validated-biowhatcom/ Last week, I attended the Systems Biology Summit in Richmond, Virginia. The opening session in the Summit was entitled "the Systems Biology Challenge in 21st Century Biomedical Research". It consisted of speakers from the Research Institute, the National Institute of Health, Academia, and the Pharmaceutical industry providing their ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/12/2007-systems-biology-summit/ As covered by Nature magazine a couple weeks ago, the full genome of James D Watson, one of the fathers of DNA, has been sequenced. The article also describes how Watson's DNA sequence revealed his predisposition to cancer. This revelation brings on several important questions. Will people ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/11/genetic-discrimination/ Sorry to be MIA once again. I got busy with wrapping up my course work, fending off hackers from this site and attending last week's Systems Biology Summit (more on this in a follow up post). But besides that, I was privileged enough to be asked to contribute ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/10/mia-once-again/ The biologists in my lab study the effects of ethanol (alcohol) on the brain. To do this they have to come up with animal based experiments to model various alcohol based conditions. One of these models is known as the alcohol deprivation effect (ADE). What it models ... http://biowhat.com/2007/04/11/bridging-the-gap-alcohol-deprivation-effect/ This past weekend I said goodbye to all my hair to support kids with Cancer. I was fortunate enough to exceed my goal of $500 (donations are still welcome and appreciated)! By bundling my hair I also I got to donate to Locks of Love. As someone who is ... http://biowhat.com/2007/03/26/st-baldricks-day/