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Biotech data mining

In the last ten years, biotech companies have been busy accumulating mountains of data. And it's becoming more and more difficult to find useful information about interactions between genes and proteins for example. It's one of the reasons why the European Union has started the BioGrid project. In Mining biotech's...

Tags: protein, Gene Ontology, This Picture

Blog posts 2005-12-31

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Philip Schiller's Macworld keynote detail just got easier

When it comes to Macworld keynotes it is the best and worst of times for Apple marketing guru Philip Schiller, the stand-in for Steve Jobs on Tuesday. Here's the breakdown: Worst of times: Schiller has to be a stand-in for Jobs at the last...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Macworld, Philip Schiller, 3G, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Desktops, Healthcare, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Micro-emailing: The 2009 email brevity challenge

I've had several discussions with my Twitter pals over the last year about how being forced to fit our thoughts into 140 characters or less has made us slightly more succinct elsewhere. For me, quite frankly, that is a miracle. I'm someone who may be considered to be... loquacious. ...

Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-12-29

Advanced Pathway Painter 2.08 (Windows)

This freeware program visualizes pathways (KEGG, GenMAPP, BioCarta...). The user has the possibility to display any kind of quantitative data from gene and protein experiments (e.g. microarrays from affymetrix) directly within the pathways colours represent the value. The linking between the pathway items and the experiment data is done over...

Tags: U.S. General Services Administration, Gene, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-12-26

GENOM 2005 3.34 (Windows)

Genom 2005 is a feature rich and user friendly application for analyzing array-experiments for example from provider Affymetrix. It includes normalization of raw data, additional gene information official gene names, location, function prediction, sequences, database references (GeneOntology, InterPro, SwissPROT, ENSEMBL, GeneBank), multiple analysis methods (cluster, Support-Vector-Machine, statistical methods), automatic pathway...

Tags: U.S. General Services Administration, Microsoft Windows, Analysis, Genom 2005

Software downloads 2008-12-26

Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plans

Steve Jobs absence from Macworld's keynote this year is being taken as a sign. What signal Apple is actually sending is debatable, but some analysts are taking a strong hint that the company is ready to transition leadership. Apple said Tuesday that it will end its relationship...

Tags: Absence, Job, Steve Jobs, Leadership, Health Care, Apple Inc., Succession Plan, Company Line, Piper Jaffray Gene Munster, Munster, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-17

PC units still selling; Apple flat but worries may be overblown

November PC sales slowed in November, but haven't fallen off a cliff due to strong notebook and netbook unit growth, according to NPD data. NPD has released its PC sell-through stats and November unit growth was 6 percent from a year ago compared to 10 percent in...

Tags: Apple iPod, PC, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., NPD, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-16

U.S. Mac sales down 1%

It appears that Apple may not be recession-proof after all. According to research firm NPD Group Inc., November Macs sales in U.S. stores declined 1% from a year ago, while industry-wide PC sales rose 2%. In a piece for the Wall Street Journal NPD...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Yahoo shareholder pushes for Microsoft search deal; Assumptions too optimistic

Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory's assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges...

Tags: Revenue, Shareholder, EBITDA, Search Business, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ivory Investment Management, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Search, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-10

$99 iPhone? Don't hold your breath (and why 'Apple = premium' isn't the answer)

$99 iPhone? Don't hold your breath (and why 'Apple = premium' isn't the answer)The best Apple analyst...Gene Munster was on CNBC's "Fast Money" yesterday. He said a WalMart deal made alot of sense and that he gave it an 85% chance to be true. Figured we'd hear an...

Tags: Public relations, 3G, Sales strategy, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

Walmart iPhone deal could be big for Apple

If Walmart does sell a $99 iPhone Apple will find itself with a sales channel that equals its retail presence in short order. In a research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster ponders reports that Walmart will sell a $99 iPhone--most likely a 4GB version. Munster writes:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc., Retail, Sales Strategy, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward

Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forwardIt's a competitive advantageHaving a well functioning ontology gives that company an edge. It should also be noted that it was no mean feat to produce it, espcially when we consider that the work is not the most exciting thing to do....

Tags: Strategy, Development tools, Hapax

Discussion threads 2008-11-28

Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward

I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?

Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?SOA may also be nonsense like Knowledge ManagementI have heard of SOA after it became extensively publicized. Many of the articles I read failed to bring out any distinct and valuable core concept of SOA. One expert (V...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Harvard Business Review, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Will Apple launch a netbook? And other burning questions

Apple has said "it doesn't do cheap," but one analyst reckons that Steve Jobs & Co. will address the netbook market at some point--either with an 11-inch MacBook Air priced between $800 and $1,000 in 2009 or a tablet Mac in 2010. That's one of the more...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Gene Munster, 3G, Notebooks, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

CLC Main Workbench 4.1.2 (Windows)

This 4-week fully functional demo of CLC Combined Workbench aggregates all DNA sequence analyses of CLC Gene Workbench and all protein sequence analyses of CLC Protein Workbench. All analyses are fully integrated in one single, user-friendly, and intuitive software application. Some analyses are - Assembly of DNA sequencing data -...

Tags: DNA, Pattern, Microsoft Windows, Biotechnology

Software downloads 2008-11-23

No drama, Obama? Sounds dramatic to me...

No drama, Obama? Sounds dramatic to me...I think it will get done ...Anyone who can rocket to the top like Mr. Obama can handle a little issue like this. I think a lot of his opposition has underestimated him from the beginning and I suspect most of them...

Tags: Obama, drama, IBF

Discussion threads 2008-11-22

CLC Main Workbench 4.1.2 (Mac)

This 4-week fully functional demo of CLC Combined Workbench aggregates all DNA sequence analyses of CLC Gene Workbench and all protein sequence analyses of CLC Protein Workbench. All analyses are fully integrated in one single, user-friendly, and intuitive software application. Some analyses are Assembly of DNA sequencing data Advanced primer...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNA, Biotechnology

Software downloads 2008-11-21

CLC DNA Workbench 4.1.2 (Mac)

This 4-week fully functional demo of CLC Gene Workbench provides a wide range of advanced DNA sequence analyses, and is based on the same user-friendly and integrated software environment as CLC Free Workbench. Some analyses are Assembly of DNA sequencing data Graphically and algorithmically advanced primer design Molecular cloning Fully...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNA, Environment, Biotechnology

Software downloads 2008-11-21

Open source to the rescue of gene analysis

Scientists can upload data sets directly and the system compares them to known gene sequences. This allows the sample to be quickly categorized. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Analysis, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Bottleneck, Roche Holding AG

Blog posts 2008-11-20