Category Archives: Genomics
What Are You Waiting For- A Certain Shade of Green? Core Science & Tech Development
Solving difficult scientific or engineering problems has proven itself to be the greatest benefactor of long-term growth and development. However, finding support for fundamental technological developments has come increasingly under fire in recent years. It is not just crying wolf, and we have all … Continue reading
Closing The Gap Between Computational & Pharmaceutical Innovation
When confronted with the mortality of life, it becomes painfully clear that medicine has not been able to keep up with information and computational innovations. At the heart of the problem stands the drug development process, where an average of … Continue reading
Chaos Game Analysis of Genomes
Genomic code that makes us is made up of four letters, ATGC. Billions of these letters together creates a lifeform. Iterated function systems (IFS) are anything that can be made by repeating the same simple rules over and over. The … Continue reading
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
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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
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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
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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
