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 'computer science'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893452&cid=t_105108_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhy-arent-there-more-women-ceos-in-health-it%2F2011.06.03 The Health Tech 2011 Conference, held earlier this month in Boston, featured presentations from startup CEOs in the health and wellness space. The conference had nothing to do with gender issues or leadership per se. Yet the Twitter feed from the conference (#ciht11) contained this: @ml_barnett By my count, only 3 of 27 speakers are women. RT @taracousphd: where are the female entrepreneurs? It’s healthcare!!! taracousphd and @ml_barnett reminded us of a painful fact. There aren’t many female CEOs in Health IT. Why is this? Women certainly aren’t short on content knowledge in health care. In fact, they dominate men in this area. More than 40% of all practicing physicians and 50% of all medical school graduates are women. Women earn nearly 3 times more PhDs in psychology (useful cont... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893452 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:30:14 +0100 4893452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4742536&cid=t_105108_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FWMn1-gocfY8%2F SharpBrains served a highly thought-provoking and informative 2011 Virtual Summit on Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century over 3 days, March 30th — April 1st. Here is a brief distillation of the large number (40+) of presentations. 1.The range and variety of presentations left no room for doubt that the digital brain health market is concerned with much more than improving cognitive performance and preventing/treating disease. There is a need for many tools in each of the following categories: computerized assessment for myriad cognitive, psychological and neurological concerns; data analysis and recommendation systems; interventions for manifold clinical and non-clinical problems; measurement of the effectiveness of interventions; dynamic feedback and intervention adjustment. Sig... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4742536 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:40:06 +0100 4742536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4670171&cid=t_105108_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F02%2Fgoogle-science-fair-2011%2F I’m pleased to help spread the word today about the world’s first online global science competition, the Google Science Fair! Google has partnered with CERN, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American to create a new kind of online science competition that is more global, open and inclusive than ever before. Students aged 13 – 18 from around the world are invited to enter and compete for awesome once-in-a-lifetime experiences, scholarships and real-life work opportunities. Click continue to see the Rube Goldberg-inspired video and learn how to sign-up. Who doesn’t like a good science fair? It gives kids the opportunity to join in a new kind of online science competition that is more global, open and inclusive than ever before. Best yet, it offers full-time... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4670171 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:00:21 +0100 4670171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4554644&cid=t_105108_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fshould-scientists-care-about-wiki-for.html I would like to encourage scientists to contribute to the ongoing survey of the Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. The title of the survey is "Expert barriers to Wikipedia?" and you as scientists, experts, would greatly help in understanding what drives people to contribute, collaborate, and communicate with each other. The focus of their survey is on Wikipedia as Knowledge Management (KM) platform.I took the survey and add here additional remarks to some science specific issues:We have featured articles on Wikipedia. Do we also have "expert approved" articles? If not, could the WM:ResearchCommittee create some guidelines, and expert networks in taking this post-review on? This would help having a better argument against those typical "Is WP a reliable source?" discussions, es... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4554644 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:08:00 +0100 4554644 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3802444&cid=t_105108_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F07%2F29%2Fbad-science-mytype-ipad-research%2F I hate to give press to a “research firm” that doesn’t know the first thing about reporting statistics or basic methodology in their own “research” report. I guess that’s what happens when you get a bunch of people together who are mostly technologists, not statisticians or social scientists. This past week, MyType, a Facebook personality application that takes your data and then sells aggregated reports based upon your answers to their quiz, released a report about the iPad. They suggested that iPad owners and those looking to buy one were “selfish elites” while those who were iPad critics were characterized as “independent geeks.” You can already tell that this isn’t exactly going to be a scientific analysis, right? First... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3802444 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:22:05 +0100 3802444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3710742&cid=t_105108_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FYnHV7rNK7QI%2F Today (June 23, 2010) would have been Alan Turing’s 98th birthday—if he had not died in 1954, at the age of 41. via Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Happy Birthday, Alan Turing. Filed under: electronic life Tagged: Alan Turing, birthday, computer science, math (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3710742 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:27:37 +0100 3710742 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2703843&cid=t_105108_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fweb-for-patients-pets-and-scientics.html (via Jean-Claude Bradley) The panel discussion from Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), John Wilbanks (VP Creative Commons), and Stephen Friend (founder of sage) highlights a few examples of the web for scientists, pets, and patients.Army of women for breast cancer trials (driven by Susan Love)Post-clinical trials, or patients sharing treatment details with each other - PatientsLikeMePetDiabetes WikiJohn Wilbanks made some really nice statements reflecting a deep understanding in the web and scientific world out thereActually, the scientific process is not so different from Wikis, in one you publish paper-by-paper, in Wikis you publish edit-by-edit. Though it might be a little slow and top-down.In life sciences we have to be aware that we are talking about an evolved system (life), not a d... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2703843 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:49:00 +0100 2703843 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424171&cid=t_105108_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fpeer-recognition-and-building.html "Experts will want to contribute to coworkers who need them, who will hear them, who will respect them and who may even thank them. ... Rather than asking, How do we incentivise people to share their knowledge? It would be more useful to ask, How do we develop relationships across the globe that will set in motion more knowledge sharing?" [slightly generalized after Nancy Dixon]"Today there seems to be a new distribution model that is emerging. One that is based on people’s ability to publically syndicate and distribute messages — aka content — in an open manner. This has been a part of the internet since day one — yet now its emerging in a different form — it's not pages, it's streams, its social and so its syndication." [John Borthwick]Recently, there are many efforts ongoing... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424171 Tue, 19 May 2009 19:16:00 +0100 2424171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2382689&cid=t_105108_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F02%2Fcontent-syntax-and-semantics%2F These are the slides I gave at a DCC workshop entitled, “Digital curation 101″ which aimed to give and overview of what to consider regarding data curation and management in the context of applying for research funding. The presentation starts with definitions of content syntax and semantics, and example of how these concepts are being applied in the life-sciences, specifically proteomics. (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2382689 Sat, 02 May 2009 09:05:56 +0100 2382689 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2323797&cid=t_105108_132_f&fid=35031&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiowhat.com%2F2009%2F04%2F04%2Fwhat-books-would-be-good-for-self-study-in-bioinformatics%2F Despite my lack of commitment to this site, it seems that I’m still getting comments every now and again. And I appreciate the interest. It really helps me realize the potential interest in the kind of things I’ve written about here. Most recently, I got a comment from Sudhang requesting books for the computer programmer who wants to self-study in the field of Bioinformatics. The following is my list. It may seem like its a bit everywhere but that’s kind of what you get with the field of Bioinformatics. Molecular Cell Biology. One would get glossy eyed trying to read through this book, but you need to have a good reference to some of the Biology that is described in Bioinformatics. Of course, wikipedia is becoming more and more of a reliable source now a days as well. Yo... biowhat.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2323797 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:40:40 +0100 2323797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2249561&cid=t_105108_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fdrug-design-paradigms-get-involved-in.html "The availability of pharmaceuticals must not be taken for granted. Pharmaceutical research requires expertise, a large commitment, a great deal of patience and the courage to take large financial risks. What counts is a sustainable framework in Germany (and other countries, too) as a location for the pharmaceutical industry. This is not a guarantee for economic success but is certainly at its foundation." [we get involved - vfa innovation]"To bring personalized medicine forward, scientists, regulators, policy makers, and pharmaceutical company leadership will need to find ways to more successfully work together, adopt a new mindset, and take a networked approach to innovation—one in which we can successfully share pre-competitive information and common platforms such as biomarkers, geno... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2249561 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:55:00 +0100 2249561 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232507&cid=t_105108_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fmalpractices-of-multitudes-mission.html More on the origin of this post's title, penned in 1836, below.(Note: Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, part 3 is here, part 4 is here, part 5 is here, part 6 is here, and part 7 is here.)This post is part 8, and the finale, of a series on the stunningly poor human engineering of production healthcare IT from major vendors, in use today at major medical centers. These devices provide a decidedly mission hostile user experience, yet with an almost religious fervor are being touted as cybernetic miracles to cure healthcare's ills.My college is a member of the iSchool consortium, consisting of schools of information science and technology (notably, not "information technology and science").The iSchools are interested in the relationship between information, people and technology. This is charac... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232507 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:55:00 +0100 2232507 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2227152&cid=t_105108_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fit-makes-healthcare-easier-is-this.html This post is part 6 of a series on the stunningly poor human engineering of production healthcare IT from major vendors, in use today at major medical centers. These devices provide a decidedly mission hostile user experience, yet with an almost religious fervor are being touted as cybernetic miracles to cure healthcare's ills.(Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, part 3 is here, part 4 is here, part 5 is here, and part 7 is here.)During the Sunday morning talk show "Roundtable" this morning, I saw an IBM ad touting the fact that they'd surpassed the petaflop mark (built computers that can perform one thousand trillion floating point calculations per second).They touted how such computers will enable weather prediction, medical advances, solutions to social problems, and other cybernetic miracl... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2227152 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:42:00 +0100 2227152 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1963866&cid=t_105108_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F16%2Fe-science-pollution-project-makes-local-news%2F A colleague here in Newcastle, who sits about 10 meters away from me, (not making any claim what so ever I ever influenced her or her work) has appeared on the local news for her e-science project here at Newcastle. Apart from the fact, the web site tells me I should be using IE, and the fact that I can not embed the video in my blog - You can watch her interview and learn about Lakshmi’s project on a novel way to measure pollution.        (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1963866 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:04:27 +0100 1963866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1717245&cid=t_105108_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FmG-05c1NTK4%2F Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are studying how to use 3-D imaging to analyze the facial structures and brain abnormalities of autistic children, in the hopes of developing a formula to identify autism in young children. From a press release: “When you compare the faces and head shapes of children with specific types of autism to other children, it is obvious there are variations. Currently, autism diagnosis is purely behavior based and doctors use tape measurements to check for facial and brain dissimilarities. We are developing a quantitative method that will accurately measure these differences and allow for earlier, more precise detection of specific types of the disorder,” said Ye Duan, assistant computer science professor in the MU College of Engineering. “O... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1717245 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:15:55 +0100 1717245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1677469&cid=t_105108_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fdata-models-or-both.html Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all. [C. Anderson, Wired, 2008-07-16]First, I disagree with this statement. Second, thanks to bioinfoman3@delicious for sharing this information.Honestly, I do not get it, why are people claiming that the scientific community, e.g. drug design, is similar to the chip industry or google concepts. Here, Chris Anderson claimed that data alone will replace theoretic concepts. As said by others, in the comments to his article, is data alone not information. Amund Tveit confirms this by showing that data correlations alone might be misleading, because you can find correlations in everything, even if it makes no sense. Data means any data, so if you lo... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1677469 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:01:00 +0100 1677469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=868241&cid=t_105108_131_f&fid=35008&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscienceroll.com%2F2007%2F09%2F13%2Fmy-new-friends%2F I haven’t been blogging for the last few days as I spend all of my spare time in the lab and while working on new projects in a unique team, I have to realize I’ve got new “friends” as well. I hope you’ll find them interesting: GeneSpring: far not freely usable, but extremely useful. In analysis, Genespring is the best tool you can have (or rather your lab) in case you want to analyze gene expression data. Geneious: Geneious Pro is an integrated bioinformatics software suite for manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as DNA sequences or proteins, phylogenies, 3D structure information, publications, etc. Gadwin Diagram Studio: It’s crucial to have well-structured, understandable slides in your presentations. This program... ScienceRoll blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=868241 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:27:21 +0100 868241 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=799269&cid=t_105108_131_f&fid=35008&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscienceroll.com%2F2007%2F08%2F14%2Fa-world-without-borders-the-password-is-connection%2F I’ve already told you how hard it was to be far away from any blogging event (e.g. Science Foo Camp). If I would like to meet someone with the same interest, then I should catch a plane. I can’t meet medical bloggers here (Why? How many medical bloggers do you know in Central-Europe?) , I can’t organize blogger events just like the one took place in San Francisco and reported by Sharp Brains. Source: Sharp Brains One of Sharp Brains’ bloggers, Alvaro, asked me to buy a web camera so that we could make contact more easily. Yesterday, I bought one. Then Andreas Engvig came up with an idea of organizing something similar here, in Europe. It is a great idea! So if you blog in Europe and would like to participate in creating a prosperous medical/scientific bloglife, co... ScienceRoll blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=799269 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:20:14 +0100 799269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486926&cid=t_105108_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F101563780%2F That’s the question on my mind today. HPC wire carries an interview with Rick Stevens at Argonne National Labs (link thanks to Bio-IT world). Michael Feldman, who conducts the interview and writes the article, writes that since biology requires large scale computing, it has become in essence a sub-domain of information science. In keeping with that thinking, ANL has put biology and computing under the same directorate (Computing and Life Sciences). I will let you read the article to find out more about Prof. Stevens’ (he holds a faculty position in the computer science department at the University of Chicago) desire to apply petaflop computing to systems biology and the challenges of combining computer science, mathematics and biology. The part that I am still at odds with is ... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486926 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:44:26 +0100 486926 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487104&cid=t_105108_132_f&fid=35031&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiowhat.com%2F2007%2F03%2F13%2Fbegginers-guide-to-bioinformatics%2F As a computer scientist coming into Bioinformatics I was faced with the heavy task of catching up on my Biology and Chemistry (I was a Physics minor in undergrad but that wasn’t applicable to my Bioinformatics catch up). This meant two semesters of General Chemistry, a semester of Organic Chemistry and a semester of Cell Biology. Though all this course work was very educational and useful for my degree I don’t think its all that necessary for a someone who may be interested in fooling around with Bioinformatics problems on the side. Here is a very general overview of cell biology for Non-Biologists wanting to get involved in Bioinformatics: Proteins are the essential part of all living organisms. Proteins have a variety of functions and are involved in every process within our... biowhat.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487104 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:49:30 +0100 487104