MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'comparisons'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:14 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3687082&cid=t_146280_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTKMetdYRDtQ%2F By David BoazJason Sorens, political scientist and founder of the Free State Project, has a series of posts at Pileus trying to estimate  the size of the “liberty constituency” in each state. Using statistical techniques well beyond my high-school algebra, he first calculated the support for Ron Paul’s presidential campaign in each state if conditions were equal. It may not be terribly surprising that by those calculations Ron Paul’s best states — and therefore, putatively, the states with the largest “liberty constituency” — were New Hampshire, Idaho, South Dakota, and Washington. In fifth place, presumably reflecting those dreaded “Beltway libertarians,” was the District of Columbia. In part 2 Sorens used principal component analysis... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3687082 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:18:58 +0100 3687082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1853649&cid=t_146280_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F412456461%2F A paper (Park et al, BMC Genomics) from Fungal Bioinformatics Lab at Seoul University in South Korea describes their new "Fungal P450 Database". The database contains sequence, names, and genome links for P450's (or Cytochrome P450s) identified by similarity and phylogenetic classification from genome annotations.  The group is using most of annotated genomes in GenBank (and I think some from elsewhere) of bacterial, fungi, animals, and plants. I find the current nomenclature for this family of genes confusing but it has been I am sure a difficult job and wrangled to a large part by David Nelson (who also has a new paper on the CYPome of Aspergillus nidulans). I have found it difficult to follow the logic for naming these members, as it didn't seem to be particularly phylogenetic a... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1853649 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:43:33 +0100 1853649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1442970&cid=t_146280_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fpetite-observations.html “Mom?”“Yes dear?”“How comes you don wear onenna them cool jogging suits like Mrs. Whatsherface?”“Um…...probably because I don’t jog.”“Mrs. Whatsherface doesn’t jog either, but she always looks so nice. She wore a pink one today wiv little jewels on the butt. You always look so……….”“Black and white?”“Old…in a nice cuddly kinda way.”***“Mom?”“Yes dear?”“I……er…..you……..um……..”I wait for percolation.“I am a cute?”“Definitely.”“No er…..I am a cute pug puppy?”“A pug puppy?”“Yeah. I am dah puppy you are dah bitch.”“Oh….you are learning a lot at the dog park aren’t you.”“I am dah cutest one?”Depends upon your definition of ‘cute.’***“MOM!”“Yes dear?”“I am be.”“Oh good. What are y... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1442970 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:44:00 +0100 1442970 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1368869&cid=t_146280_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F269197633%2F Ewan Birney and Ensembl (the other/original genome browser depending on if you are a UCSC junkie) have started blogging a bit more about what is going on under the proverbial hood over there in Hinxton.  There are some great nuggets talking about what are some of the current problems.  These bite-sized comments should be a great glimpse into what is going on without drowning in the deluge that is ensembl-dev.   This is a recent post on the challenges of gene annotation coordination among "manual" and "automated" annotation of gene structure of groups at the same institution.   Scale that up among multiple genomes, genome centers, quality of prediction programs and assemblies, and you can see why the fungal genome comparisons could use a little bit more help. It is great to hear what ... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1368869 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:00:48 +0100 1368869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1034909&cid=t_146280_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F186874015%2Femails_or_essays_for_business.html Have you noticed how effective business communications ... tend to mirror well-written expository essays?  How so? 1. Both introduce or explain a concrete theme to a target audience. In each case the communicator conveys information clearly  … in words that show recipients what they know … or have researched ... about their subject. 2. The communicator avoids personal or emotional reactions in order to present unbiased information about a theme or topic. The idea is to present objective facts in ways that allow readers to make their own choices – based on solid facts -not opinions. 3.  Both point to familiar evidence that illustrates main points. Concrete examples and images, icons or word pictures ... help communicators to a... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1034909 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:26:34 +0100 1034909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=861900&cid=t_146280_135_f&fid=35272&url=http%3A%2F%2Fslimconomy.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Frapid-hiv-tests-lateral-or-gravity.html One of the toughest parts of business is that some products just don't make it. And sometimes that's to the detriment of the consumer and in the case of HIV/AIDS, to the world as a whole. In technology, Oracle is the world's leading database company - but there was a far superior product; but that company lacked the ability to market and raise the capital to succeed. Oracle is what we are stuck with. Then there's Apple's OSX, superior to Windows Vista in many ways, but has only 5% of the market.There have been better cars, better microwave ovens and well, better almost anything. In healthcare however, this has far reaching and dangerous consequences. In the case of rapid HIV tests, we are seeing an old technology win out over a far superior technology because of legal patents and the abili... Slimconomy blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=861900 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:54:00 +0100 861900