Biology & Life Sciences

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Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Judith N. Mottl	Learning to Love Linux Hungry for computing power, life science companies are turning toward Linux clusters as the preferred high performance solution.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Malorye Branca	Deep Sequence Diving Like sailors of old, genomic data miners dream of discovering riches and fame. Given the recent improvements in analytics -- and a little more time -- they just might succeed.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Curtis Franklin Jr.	Source of Debate Open source software is gaining popularity at biotech companies, but thorny issues, such as intellectual property, remain. Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Mark D. Uehling	Flirting with Genomic Disaster A conversation with political scientist Francis Fukuyama about the prospect of ethics regulation in biotechnology.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Rabiya S. Tuma	Microarray Analysis on a Massive Scale New nonprofit aims to collect 10,000 tumor samples for extensive research effort.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Stephen T.C. Wong	Neuro-IT Needs Integrated Infrastructure There are two major motivations for merging enterprise solutions into clinical neuroscience. The first is the need to scale up the capacity for data management. The second is the economic benefits of data sharing, software reuse, and infrastructure build-out while reducing costs.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Michael Swenson	The End of Relational Databases? Until now, the use of relational databases within genomics and proteomics was treated as a given, with no one prepared to question whether this was an appropriate use of technology. That may be about to change.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Kevin Davies	Combating Creative Chaos in Bioinformatics "The desktop computer has become an indispensable part of the biologist's tool chest," says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Lincoln D. Stein, but one that is not being used to its full advantage.
Wired August 2002 Andrew Tilin	The Ultimate Running Machine Inside a Soviet-style training camp, corporate scientists are reengineering neuro-mechanics, blood chemistry, and brain waves. Welcome to the Oregon Project, where Nike is rebuilding the US marathon team one high tech step at a time.
Wired August 2002 Wil McCarthy	Strange Blood Cataclysmic shortages. Tainted supplies. There is a solution: artificial blood.
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