Author Archives: Mohammed Rahman
Bioinformatics In Bengal
Visiting Bengal for the holidays I didn’t expect a thriving bioinformatics community. Yet, that’s exactly what I found when Dr. Haseena Khan invited me to visit her lab at The University of Dhaka. The Jute Genome Project was a consortium … Continue reading
Filed under Genomics, Microbiology
Cancer, Stress, Genomic Treatments & Steve Jobs
Of the billions of letters making up our life-code a few simple mistakes can cause a cell to stop following the rules, multiply endlessly and destroy it’s host eco-system, you. What can introduce such mistakes in our DNA? The riskiest … Continue reading
Filed under Genomics, Meditation, Neuroscience
Zero-mode Waveguide & Single Molecule Real Time Sequencing
Last week saw something of a historic announcement that may well be seen in grander light by our offspring than us. 23 & Me announced the $999 Exome, all the protein coding regions of our genome. This for the first … Continue reading
Filed under Genomics
Drug Development from Binary to Gradient Model
Earlier this year a study by the Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts University placed the cost of developing a new drug at $1.3 billion [1]. Though the number is contested by other researchers [2], it is well within … Continue reading
The Fall in Gov Funding & Rise of Privatization in Genome Databases
As the spaceshuttle program comes to an end we are reminded of the role of goverments in birthing industries. And just like the manned space program, genomics has been mostly government funded and just like the space program it’s about … Continue reading
Filed under Genomics
SHDH45@Google: simple BLAST+ setup
Super Happy Dev House pays off once again, with a day that blurred the line between play and work. Reminiscent of the days in middle and high school where my parents would provide tables, power cords and snacks for those all night … Continue reading
Filed under Genomics
Industry & Academia, part 2: Ex Mod Op
Opening restrictions of what a guided problem is allows us to achieve greater results. A simple rendition of this can be seen with consumers perception of what “cures” or medicine is. The lay public expects a pill to solve our problems. Which … Continue reading
Filed under BigPharma
Yoga, A Cognitive Exercise
In August 2009 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume 1172 was released, containing within it 31 peer-reviewed articles which attempt to “study the impact of Indo-Tibetan practices on longevity and health.” If our brain cells are rewiring themselves based on our habits … Continue reading
Filed under Meditation, Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology
Feed Your Head – Aβ, Tau & APOE
Some would say a soul is the collective memories and personality traits of an individual. So, what is left if those memories and traits are erased? You and I might be far from old and senile (well I’m not old). … Continue reading
Filed under Genomics, Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology
Decided? No, we just finished saying Good Morning: Sage Congress 2011
“Therefore a sage has said, ‘I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct. I will take no trouble about it, and the … Continue reading
Filed under Microbiology, Genomics
