Posts Tagged ‘data mining

I’ve just checked that at least 400 proteins in Uniprot had their sequence updated since beginning of this year. It could be more, but I work on a subset of human proteins that consists of ca. 1500 proteins, so probably I see only portion of changes. So, instead of wrapping up the paper, I’m redoing analysis [...]

Available and relevant

23, Jan 2010

Great question is asked on EPT blog: What would be the consequence of just a single butterfly wing-flap in, say, Sweden on some new medical development in Peru? For researchers to be able to use a new development from the opposite side of the world, such development simply has to be be available. Without OA, [...]

From O’Reilly Radar post entitled: Unlikely Group Working Happily Together To Solve Patent Problem: In September, the Patent Office announced a rather strange “Request for Information” (RFI). Under this proposed scheme, the Patent Office would receive a substantial (upwards of $10 million!) donation of equipment from a vendor. In return, the vendor would get to [...]


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