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Scientists from Texas A&M University have developed a new algorithm MrsRF (MapReduce Speeds up Robinson-Foulds) for analyzing large collection of evolutionary trees using MapReduce framework. Matthews et. al, have used their MapReduce algorithm to...
Dr. Monica Anderson talks about reductionism vs holism in science. She also suggests that artificial intelligence failed because intelligence is too holistic and by its nature it always attracted the hardcore reductionists. One of my favorite quote...
I hope you remember that some time back Microsoft tried to patent clustering phylogenetics methods which was a socking news for the bioinformatics community as community used these methods for a long time without any restriction. Now Microsoft had...
In a latest online article in journal Science Ge et al. report a cryo-electron microscopy structure of a model rhabdovirus, a bullet-shaped vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). Using their structural data they suggest a mechanism of VSV assembly in which...
Recently I was reading a bunch of articles on computational reproducibility in scientific research including one from my fellow blogger Grant Jacobs of Code for life blog. The term reproducibility in computational science is not monolithic - what...
This is an excellent blog on systems biology and bioinformatics. In very few months the blog has become one of my favorites due to very timely and nicely written posts.
