gpurkins
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Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Nice! I had read something similar for a wood workshop here: http://woodgears.ca/dust/air_cleaner.html
Seems to be quite effective.
Also, if you're into woodworking, woodgears is probably one of the best, if not the best on the net.
Comment · 13 years ago
https://banyan.co/ collaboration for scientists on OSX
Comment · 13 years ago
A good version exists here: http://www.planetmule.com/
Comment · 13 years ago
http://prserve.com is quite good.
Comment · 13 years ago
Sparkfun also has an exceptional write up on how to get into the microamp ballpark:
http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/309
The article's try and see approach is very detailed and a great read for anyone looking to get into prototyping with AVR for battery based projects.
Comment · 14 years ago
Thin clients ride again. How much will Dell charge to run your instances?
Comment · 14 years ago
Use an open format and learn to love the bomb?
Districts probably aren't going to care, as they are looking for a cheaper way to stay current. I recognize the prices are not as good as they should be, but realize the logistics are removed from the situation. The monster of having to manage all those books goes away with a keypress, but lands them squarely on a treadmill with the publishers controlling the dial.
Open school books? Maybe teachers will collaborate and make their own material? There's a lot of room in there...
Comment · 14 years ago
The point is to look at genomic variations across the entirety of the human genome, not so much to match genomic variation to phenotype. What you're saying makes sense, but I think that is more a next step.
Comment · 14 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Genomes_Project
Here's the project explanation, but the data itself is 1000 complete (hopefully!) genome sequences. The hope is to find the variants, be it single nucleotide differences, copy number difference, etc. Where I work we use it to help figure out SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) to see if something we sequenced is a mutation or just a variant with no effect.
Comment · 14 years ago
Depends, there are several sequencing technologies and they all have strengths/weaknesses. At my job, we use 454 sequencing from Roche and since it relies on PCR it has problems with tandem repeats and homopolymers that might not trip up other methods. (Sanger for example)
Comment · 14 years ago
The real reason for a lot of this is personalized medicine, or rather more specific medicine. A gene translocation or even a SNP may be able to differentiate cancer types and change the course of treatment.
Any of them will make your deploy/config life great.