Coast to Coast Bio Podcast

In episode 11 of Coast to Coast Bio, Deepak and Hari debate big data, talk about what skills a bioinformatician should have, microblogging’s successful entry at PLoS, and even talk about how Google shut down the WWW

Show notes

Big data: Shoot first, ask questions later

Attila asks about bioinformatics skills

Friendfeed in PLoS

Google slashes the web

Links of the week

Deepak: eScienceNews

Hari: Voidspace

Producers note: There was some background noise from Hari’s apartment.  Took a lot of it away but it’s there in a few places and has minor impacts on audio in a few places

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In Episode 7, Deepak and Hari discuss Steven Chu’s selection as the Secretary of Energy, the Uniprot architecture, Open Notebook Science and issues with the Encylopedia of Life.

Here are the shownotes

Steven Chu is the new Secretary of Energy

Synthetic Biology: Drew Endy debates Jim thomas at the longnow foundation seminars on longterm thinking (mp3)

Design and implementation of the UniProt website

Crowds, solubility and the future of organic chemistry

Announcing the ChemSpider Journal of Chemistry

EOL is not delivering

Sorting a million 32-bit integers in 2 MB of RAM using Python

 

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In Episode 3 of Coast to Coast Bio we talk about everything from the tension between experimentalists and bioinformaticians, Zotero vs. ThomsonReuters and even Michael Crichton

The following links were discussed on the podcast this week

Science in the Open talks about how good data models  and  well-posed questions lead to good code

and the Saunders principle wherein Bioinformaticians struggle with inconsistent formats , prompting code-itch (Hari) to complain that Bioinformaticians have to grin and bear it!

Zotero the open bibliography management firefox extension is being sued by Thomson  the creators of EndNote .

Delicious Networks and  Connotea : Social bookmarking and content discovery ( side note : a few screencasts about connotea )

Duncan Hull reviews the many social Bibliography apps

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We’re back. In episode 2 we talk about topics ranging from next-gen sequencing to structured data.

Specific sites or stories discussed include

Nautilus: Next-generation sequencing poster and podcast
Glue
Is DAS the answer
Git ( and esp Git from the bottom up a free pdf that explains the underlying magic)
Toby Segaran: Personal data integration

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Alright here goes..We (i.e Deepak and Hari) had been thinking about starting a podcast for a while and we finally figured the best way to start is to simply dive in and get cracking. The audio quality isn’t quite there yet, but we’ll get things more streamlined as we streamline our workflow

In this episode we talk about the plethora of wikis out there , when databases aren’t really databases , a brief foray into writing python extensions for Mindtouch Deki and Biocarta, a graphical user contributed pathway archive.

The format of the podcast will evolve over time as we settle into a routine and schedule. Our current plan is to publish a new episode every week and talk about matters somewhere in the continuum between biology and programming

Other links mentioned in the podcast

Stack Overflow podcast
GDGT Podcast
FLOSS Weekly
Dan Ingalls
Net at Nite
E. Coli Hub
Topsan
Java Posse
The Battle between Nature and Encyclopedia Britannica
The Genes Wiki project
Matt Wood

 

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