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Cameron turns 'internet of things' slogan into fact | Jessica Bland
PM announces £45m research funding and a review of how to make the most of internet of things technologies. Make the most for whom?At the digital technology trade fair CeBIT 2014 in Hannover, David Cameron announced that UK chief science adviser Sir Mark Walport will lead a review into internet of things technologies. He also said £45m will be available for internet of things research in the UK, as well as £1m grants for European companies developing related products. Speaking alongside German chancellor Angela Merkel, he urged: This is a world on fast forward. A world of permanent technological revolution. And in this ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 10, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jessica Bland Tags: theguardian.com Blogposts Science policy Source Type: news

Publish or Perish: The Future of Scholarly Communications and Academic Careers #PublishPerish14
Discussion | What we have learned, where we are now, & what we need to do nextDiscussants: Yochai Benkler (Harvard), Mario Biagioli (UC Davis), Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis), Josh Greenberg (Sloan Foundation), Heather Joseph (SPARC), and MacKenzie Smith (UC Davis).5 – 6 pm | Bonus Session | Lightning Talks -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. --------
Source: The Tree of Life - February 13, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Learning what not to do…
Ali Almossawi is a young metrics engineer at Mozilla. He collaborates with the MIT media lab. He has done something quite remarkable, uplifting and useful. (And isn’t that a good thing these days.) He wrote a book called An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. More than 500,000 people read the online version. Now there is a print version. From Amazon Here is the best part: he has published it online with open access. As in, you can look at without paying. Of course there is a donate button. The reason I share this book is that it is a beautiful collection of bad arguments. It teaches. It entertains. Mr Almossawi took h...
Source: Dr John M - February 10, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs

A C library for retrieving specific reactions from the BioModels database
We describe libSBMLReactionFinder, a C library for retrieving specific biochemical reactions from the curated systems biology markup language models contained in the BioModels database. The library leverages semantic annotations in the database to associate reactions with human-readable descriptions, making the reactions retrievable through simple string searches. Our goal is to provide a useful tool for quantitative modelers who seek to accelerate modeling efforts through the reuse of previously published representations of specific chemical reactions. Availability and implementation: The library is open-source and dual l...
Source: Bioinformatics - December 18, 2013 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Neal, M. L., Galdzicki, M., Gallimore, J. T., Sauro, H. M. Tags: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Source Type: research

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 16th December, 2013.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so.Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General CommentI think the biggest news of the week was the announcement of the revised strategy for the NBN which looks as though it will be slower and take a while longer to be delivered.On a personal note my internet experience has been dramatically improved by the addition of the Firefox extension Adblock.See here:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 16, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Needed Advice For eBook Authors: Check Spelling And Grammar
When I cruise around the complaints in reviews of Amazon Kindle ebooks (books which have no physical book equivalent) the most amazing recurring complaint is bad spelling. Why amazing? It is such an easily avoidable problem. Spell checkers are ubiquitous. The Mozilla Seamonkey browser I'm typing this post in is complaining to me with jagged red underlines as I make spelling mistakes. Granted I do not always notice those red lines when trying to finish up a post so I can go to sleep. But I'm not writing a book and not trying to charge for what I'm doing. But book authors do hope to get people to spend money and then recomme...
Source: FuturePundit - November 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs

Bayesian Network Webserver: a comprehensive tool for biological network modeling
Summary: The Bayesian Network Webserver (BNW) is a platform for comprehensive network modeling of systems genetics and other biological datasets. It allows users to quickly and seamlessly upload a dataset, learn the structure of the network model that best explains the data and use the model to understand relationships between network variables. Many datasets, including those used to create genetic network models, contain both discrete (e.g. genotype) and continuous (e.g. gene expression traits) variables, and BNW allows for modeling hybrid datasets. Users of BNW can incorporate prior knowledge during structure learning th...
Source: Bioinformatics - October 18, 2013 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Ziebarth, J. D., Bhattacharya, A., Cui, Y. Tags: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Source Type: research

Mozilla plan seeks to debug scientific code
Nature 501, 7468 (2013). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/501472a Author: Erika Check Hayden Software experiment raises prospect of extra peer review.
Source: Nature - September 24, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Erika Check Hayden Tags: News Source Type: research

Relating genes to function: identifying enriched transcription factors using the ENCODE ChIP-Seq significance tool
We present the ENCODE ChIP-Seq Significance Tool, a flexible web application leveraging public ENCODE data to identify enriched transcription factors in a gene or transcript list for comparative analyses. Implementation: The ENCODE ChIP-Seq Significance Tool is written in JavaScript on the client side and has been tested on Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Server-side scripts are written in PHP and leverage R and a MySQL database. The tool is available at http://encodeqt.stanford.edu. Contact: abutte@stanford.edu Supplementary information: Supplementary material is available at Bioinformatics online.
Source: Bioinformatics - July 15, 2013 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Auerbach, R. K., Chen, B., Butte, A. J. Tags: DATABASES AND ONTOLOGIES Source Type: research

On RSS Readers, Divorce and Marriage
In just a few days, Google Reader will be history.  I've used it to create over 18,000 Tweets, so yes, I will miss Google Reader.  The end has pushed me into a divorce (or maybe it's just a separation?!) — from Google.  I describe my Google divorce as kind of like when a married couple with children decide to separate … they still have to see their exes for the sake of the kids (and I still have my blogs with Google's Blogger, for now anyway), and it may be a cordial, but not quite blissful separation, but is still necessary.A number of my fellow diabetes blogging peers have already migrated from Google'...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 28, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott S Source Type: blogs

Binding a C library with Javascript/ #mozilla. An example with the Tabix library
In this post I'll show how to bind a C API to javascript using the mozilla/xul-runner API and the tabix library. About xpcshellXULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package. The SDK package contains xpcshell, a JavaScript Shell application that lets you run JavaScript code. "Unlike the ordinary JS shell (js), xpcshell lets the scripts running in it access the mozila technologies (XPCOM)." I've tested
Source: YOKOFAKUN - May 29, 2013 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Pierre Lindenbaum Source Type: blogs

Tech Now with Gina Smith: On Firefox 20, In Window Private Browsing
I'm starting aNewDomain.net's Tech Now with Gina Smith -- targeted at those who either missed the day's tech news or slept through it because, perhaps, they're on the other side of the world. What do you think? Special thanks to...
Source: I'm Gina Smith - April 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gina Tags: anewdomain Firefox 20 Mozilla News Tech Now with Gina Smith Source Type: blogs

Calculating 'crosswordiness' of answers: how to do it and what it shows us
Crossword puzzles are home to a selection of archaic and exotic words. Web developer Noah Veltman shows us how he has worked out the 'crosswordiness' of answers used in a selection of New York Times puzzles• More data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianEvery budding crossword puzzler quickly learns that crosswords have their own strange vernacular. The need to interweave lots of words seamlessly puts vowels, short words, and unusual letter combinations at a premium, and puzzle constructors don't want to make things too easy by sticking to the familiar. The end result is that archaic, technical, and just ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 4, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Crosswords United States Blogposts guardian.co.uk Language UK news Source Type: news

GS1 US Announces Keynote Speaker and Registration for GS1 Connect 2013
The GS1 Connect conference will feature a keynote from Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs, an expanded Pre-Conference Education Program, Trading Partner Roundtables, and peer networking opportunities.(PRWeb January 15, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10320482.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - January 16, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

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