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EvolutionAndMedicine
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30 Jul 2008 - 18:46 - r1.2
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IanHolmes
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// http://www.evolutionandmedicine.org/ "a resource for scientists and medical professionals working at the interface of evolutionary biology and medicine" // Includes the 2006 Science editorial Why Medicine Needs Evolution (PDF). // via this post on evolgen. // Main.IanHolmes 31 Jul 2008 //
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GeneDesignSoftware
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13 Mar 2008 - 18:01 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// APE: A Plasmid Editor. // http://www.biology.utah.edu/jorgensen/wayned/ape/ // Code Monkey video on the youtubes // Gene Designer. // // http://www.dna20.com/tools.php // Main.IanHolmes 14 Mar 2008 //
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XMLandScheme
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28 Feb 2008 - 19:18 - r1.6
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IanHolmes
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// XML as a dialect of Scheme: // http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/330/wiki/index.cgi?XMLandScheme // http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html // Main.IanHolmes 29 Feb 2008 //
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UrgeMechanics
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27 Feb 2008 - 11:22 - r1.10
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IanHolmes
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// "Urge Mechanics" is my new sexy name for "Ergonomics". // The old word is so stuffily work-oriented: // ergonomics // "scientific study of the efficiency of people in the workplace," coined 1950 from Gk. ergon "work" (see urge (v.)) (ec)onomics . // The Swedish TCO Congress (English page) were recommended to me as having tougher ergonomic emission standards than anyone else. // My friend who recommended them said: // "Unfortunately they only certified one ...
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HoneywellKitchenComputer
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28 Feb 2008 - 18:54 - r1.6
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IanHolmes
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// The Wikipedia:Honeywell 316 // Marketing line: "If only she could cook as well as Honeywell can compute". // Ewwww. So Mad Men. // Via Kevin Kelly // and this Dr Dobbs article. // Current bioinformatics link: OpenQuestions2008 //
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OpenQuestions2008
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28 Feb 2008 - 18:49 - r1.10
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IanHolmes
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// Open questions (moving into) 2008 // Indel processes // Consider all approximations: // gaps as extra substitution character // closed-form approximations: TKF91, TKF92 // xrate: gap-model; gaps as characters; with context... // discrete-time transducers // Statistical alignment MCMC //
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PaleoVirology
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19 Dec 2007 - 09:54 - r1.6
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IanHolmes
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// Paleovirology in the New Yorker. // Mentions Heidmann et al reconstructing the human endogenous retroviral ancestor, "Phoenix". // Thanks to steady advances in computing power and DNA technology, a talented undergraduate with a decent laptop and access to any university biology lab can assemble a virus with ease. // via Bruce Sterling // Main.IanHolmes 19 Dec 2007 //
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CyberpunkRealism
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10 Oct 2007 - 03:50 - r1.15
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IanHolmes
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// Rudy coined the word "Transrealism" for the process of creating sci-fi by taking vignettes from your own autobiography and performing stylistic transformations on the key elements like transplantation to a futuristic setting, or substitution of teen alienation with alien abduction . // William, acknowledging that sci-fi is always truly set in the author's subjective present (which, he says, is trapped at least ten years in the past), has insisted on moving ...
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StormWorm
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24 Oct 2007 - 13:43 - r1.5
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IanHolmes
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// From Bruce Schneier: // Peer-to-peer, stealthy, for-profit malware. // Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide. // Old style worms Sasser, Slammer, Nimda were written by hackers looking for fame. They spread ...
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MalwarePhylogeny
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30 Aug 2007 - 00:13 - r1.10
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IanHolmes
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// DataRescue's IDA disassembler applied to computer virus phylogeny (PDF). // The tree includes Wikipedia:Netsky, Wikipedia:Mydoom, Bagle, Sasser and other variants. // Related pages on biowiki: TeachingVirusProgramming, ViralRiboswitches. //
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TheRealWire
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28 Aug 2007 - 16:38 - r1.20
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IanHolmes
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// Source material for HBO's The Wire. // (William Gibson likes this show too.) // This bulletin maintains that the gang violence under review in Baltimore is a symptom of the powerful influence of gang leaders. These gang leaders, though small in number, are largely responsible for the fear that touches Baltimore's citizens. Head gangsters are vulnerable, however, because the violence they command is revulsive to others, and law enforcement can direct that ...
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RiboWiki
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01 Sep 2007 - 21:16 - r1.12
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IanHolmes
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// y'know. wikipedia has a lot of cool stuff. // Wikipedia:RNA world hypothesis // Wikipedia:RNA structure lots of algorithms // Wikipedia:Ribosomal RNA // Wikipedia:Ribozyme // Wikipedia:Aptamer // Wikipedia:Riboswitch // Wikipedia:Hammerhead ribozyme ... I mean, I could go on ... // Wikipedia:RNA // Wikipedia:Non-coding RNA // Wikipedia:WikiProject RNA aims to cultivate articles on each noncoding RNA family //
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SpookCountry
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23 Aug 2007 - 22:58 - r1.15
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IanHolmes
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// William Gibson's new book Spook Country has almost nothing in common with the original proposal, reproduced below. // Publishers Note: In around July 2005 (according to his blog) William // Gibson began writing the novel that became Spook Country and // delivered it 18months later to his publishers. Reproduced below is // William Gibson’s original proposal for this novel // Proposal for a novel by William Gibson //
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BiologicalWarfare
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26 Nov 2007 - 13:56 - r1.11
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IanHolmes
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// As well as being a tool for medicine and biotechnology, molecular biology has functioned as a weapon. // Here are a few random links about molecular biological warfare in ancient and modern times, // in honor of the 25th anniversary of computer viruses. // Anthrax // First used by the Japanese cult Wikipedia:Aum Shinrikyo // More recently the Wikipedia:2001 anthrax attacks // http://www.defencejournal.com/dec98/anthrax.htm // The 1978 assassination of Wikipedia ...
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BritishCensors
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01 Sep 2007 - 21:17 - r1.7
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IanHolmes
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// Rejecting a work is a very serious action and one which we do not take lightly. Where possible we try to consider cuts or, in the case of games, modifications which remove the material which contravenes the Board's published Guidelines. In the case of "Manhunt 2" this has not been possible. "Manhunt 2" is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages ...
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ViralRiboswitches
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28 Aug 2007 - 16:52 - r1.5
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IanHolmes
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// Following my earlier post on TeachingVirusProgramming ... // Here's a nice application of aptamers that highlights some of the potential a theophylline-triggered riboswitch implanted in tomato bushy stunt virus: // http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1087232 // A systems biology paper from the same F1000 issue, on how noise determines B.subtilis fates: // http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1087316 // Main.IanHolmes 24 Jun 2007 // // From the syntheticbiology ...
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TopFiveScubaHits
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17 Jun 2007 - 22:12 - r1.5
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IanHolmes
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// Top five Google hits for Scuba Bay Area // 1 http://www.bdcss.com/ (Burlingame) // 1 http://www.bambooreef.com/ (SF/Monterey/Sonoma/Mendocino) Y :-) // 1 http://www.wallins.com/ (San Carlos) // 1 http://www.sfscubaschools.com/ (SF, San Jose Maui) // 1 http://www.scubamonterey.com/ (Monterey) //
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TeachingVirusProgramming
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23 Aug 2007 - 23:04 - r1.42
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IanHolmes
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// Bruce Schneier has a post up on Teaching Virus and Worm Programming. // I allude to the A-life qualities of computer viruses and worms in my introductory computational biology class. // Seems fair game to me. // I'm not at Michal Zalewski's level, but dreaming's free... // Who's Michal Zalewski, you ask? Only the coollest virus designer ever (outside of SpookCountry, I guess...) //
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SyntheticBioFiction
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09 Jun 2007 - 00:40 - r1.51
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IanHolmes
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// Rewatching Wikipedia:Farscape, whose biomechanoid Leviathans I love, I was reminded of the cheesily-titled but good "The Helix and the Sword" by John !McCloughlin (reviews, random blog comment, ISBN:0812545567). // Massive zooloads of engineered posthuman species ("synes"), including living ships... a post-apocalyptic exile of humanity into the solar plate... and the "Sisterhood of the Nucleotides", a secretive order of genetic engineers to pit against Dune ...
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MakerFaire
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04 Jun 2007 - 14:54 - r1.3
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IanHolmes
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// Maker Faire 2007 was fun. // Sorta like "Why Don't You" meets Burning Man. // Laughing Squid has photos. // Main.IanHolmes 04 Jun 2007 // dorkbotSF looks fun too... //
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Number of topics: 25
OK, I've stopped trying to bend the wiki into being a blog and am now using this subweb as, uh, a wiki for random one-off observations.
Images are often reposted at biowiki.org home.
Here are the 25 most recent new pages. -- IanHolmes - 04 Jun 2007
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