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- Virtual reality frog dissection software
- Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous virtual frog dissection kits, this software is a real simulation product. As says one researcher, 'other products out there are multi-media, not true virtual reality.' And...
- Tags: Software, Biology, Student, Technology, V-Frog, Tools & Techniques, Virtual Reality, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Create Great Classroom Presentations
- Great multimedia classroom presentations are more than just simple slide shows with stick figure clip art and colorful backgrounds. If they're well thought out, multimedia presentations can help teachers reach students that have a variety of learning styles. Whether one is teaching a high school biology class about cell structure...
- Tags: Multimedia, Biology, Multimedia Classroom Presentation
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOA
- Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOAAppalling deficiency in powers of observationRegardless of the theory du jour, biological evolution is a system of advancement. Compare single cell organism with human body, and culture.Theory "du jour" is based on what has been observedIf you want to...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), theory, biology, SOA
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOA
- I've been following the technology industry for years now, and there's always been talk about a "revolution" or "evolution" underway. I've come to the conclusion that "revolution" has been too extreme of a term to describe most of the paradigm shifts we've seen, which therefore relegates most...
- Tags: Biology, Evolution, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- BioStat 2007 (exe)
- BioStat - user-friendly biology and medicine oriented statistical software. With BioStat 2007, one gets a robust suite of statistics tools and graphical analysis methods that are easily accessed though a simple and straightforward interface. While BioStat 2007 is a "heavy-duty" biology and medicine oriented professional statistical analysis tool, the interface...
- Tags: Statistical Analysis, Biology, Analysis, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-11-20
- SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atoms
- The SC07 keynote address was given Tuesday morning by Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT. Neil challenged his audience to reconsider "obviously true" statements like "binary information is represented with two states". In light of current and future technological trends what if we relax...
- Tags: Program, Compiler, Biology, Programming, Computer, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- This is your doing, isn't it, Dad?
- My oldest son hopped in the car today after school and said, "Guess what we're doing in Biology? We're blogging. I'm not complaining, but this sure sounds like your doing, Dad." Not surprisingly, I ran a day of professional development last Friday where we specifically looked...
- Tags: Biology, Teacher, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- J. Craig Venter: The emerging biosynthetic world
- I am attending the Web 2.0 Summit. It's the final day of the conference and human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter is being interviewed by Tim O'Reilly. Listening to Venter, you get the feeling that Silicon Valley, the home of companies like Intel, Apple, Cisco, HP and Google, is the...
- Tags: Biology, J. Craig Venter, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Misusing open source in a good cause
- The great scientist and futurist Freeman Dyson has an important essay today in the New York Times. (Picture from Wikipedia.)He writes about green technology, science built on biology, overtaking gray technology, science built on chemistry and physics. He writes about creating new forms of life to solve intractable problems, about...
- Tags: politics, Government, General, education, Development
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- Serial Cloner (zip)
- Serial Cloner is a molecular biology software. It provides tools with an intuitive interface that assists you in DNA cloning, sequence analysis and visualization. Serial Cloner has been developed to provide a light molecular biology software to both Macintosh and Windows users. Serial Cloner reads and write DNA Stridertm-compatible files...
- Tags: DNA, Biology, Serial Cloner, Biotechnology
- Software downloads 2007-05-11
- Open biology is the new buzzword
- Open biology is the new buzzwordNothing like the GPL in Biology?[hey, I've got the flu, but sure, I'll comment]Well, as a legal document, perhaps there is nothing like the GPL in biology. As the natural order of things, there's nothing more like free software than the normal reproduction of DNA.I've...
- Tags: Biotechnology, biology, GPL, patent, Open biology
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Open biology is the new buzzword
- Rob Carlson right, the author of Biology is Technology, and who first coined the term open source biology six years ago, wants to change it to open biology, saying the comparisons between DNA and computer code aren't there.To me this is a question of call me sour, call me kraut...
- Tags: business models, Patents, Government, Development, Legal, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- The birth of quantum biology
- Just when you finally have grasped the concept of quantum mechanics, its time to wake up and to see the arrival of a nascent field named quantum biology. This is the scientific study of biological processes in terms of quantum mechanics and it uses todays high-performance computers to precisely model...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, protein
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Visualization of Complementary Systems Biology Data With Parallel Heatmaps
- The interpretation of large-scale biological data can be aided by the use of appropriate visualization tools. Heatmaps - pattern-revealing aggregate views of data - have emerged as a preferred technique for the display of genomics data, since they provide an extra dimension of information in a two-dimensional display. The parallel...
- Tags: Biology, IBM Corp., Productivity, Healthcare
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Nanotech and immortality
- From the "out of left field" department, I've been finishing up my reading of Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near," a book I bought over eight months ago and hadn't got around to finishing yet. In my defense, at 651 pages and with enough cross-disiplinary technical...
- Tags: Kurzweil, cell, Richard Smalley
- Blog posts 2006-08-29
- LabCollector Server (exe)
- Built around independent modules that can interact with each other, LabCollector will manage a variety of day-to-day useful molecular biology lab information. The main concept behind LabCollector is that each scientist in the lab can manage quickly data and information and make it available to the rest of the lab...
- Tags: Biology, LabCollector Server, Laboratory Staff, Open Source
- Software downloads 2006-07-19
- Open source science
- Open source scienceIts just amazingthat the world's headlong dash to destruction can be thwarted by so few brilliant people. A million of P.T. Barnum's people have the same influence on the future as a single scientist. Makes me proud of my own natural science degree - I can hold off...
- Tags: open source movement, biology, open source, Rice, chemist, Closed-Source, knowledge
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
- DrosophiLab (exe)
- DrosophiLab is a freeware program for genetical simulation of fruit fly breeding. Create flies by specifying their genotype in the Chromosome Editor, and use them to derive new generations to study phenomena such as inheritance, linkage, and crossing-over. Flies are shown in a virtual microscope as 3D models that can...
- Tags: Biology, DrosophiLab
- Software downloads 2005-07-13
- Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology
- Gates foundation to promote synthetic biologyGates foundation to promote synthetic biologyHey! Don't knock Rhode Island! Thats where I grew up and I'm not afraid to get midevil if you talk bad about it.An antivirus from the Gates Foundation?Nuff said.It makes sensesynthetic brains are the best MS can hope for...
- Tags: Gates Foundation, Microsoft Corp., E-Coli, synthetic Biology, biology
- Discussion threads 2004-12-13
- They don't teach security in biology class
- They don't teach security in biology class"Study " by Wright brothers"For example, the Wright brothers studied the flight of birds in designing planes with flexible, twisting wings and an aerofoil shape to provide lift."This is naive version of the story that is popular between many people and mostly Americans.What really...
- Tags: Wright Brothers, Gustave Whitehead, Click Open, biology, security
- Discussion threads 2004-04-13
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