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| Friday, May 11th, 2007 | 5:07 pm
[twitchhtp]
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About 10 minutes ago, I was notified of my acceptance at James Madison University (where I had been on the waitlist). Sure this is great, except for the fact that I've already committed at George Mason University. The reason I'm asking you guys is because I want your opinions. I'm planning on majoring in biology if I go to Mason, and biotechnology if I go to James Madison, and was wondering which one would be the better choice (in terms of college, major, or both), since I still have time to change (losing the deposit money however...). Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it.
X Posted a crap load of other places | | Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 | 1:07 am
[kevinblanchard]
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| | Sunday, March 20th, 2005 | 12:22 am
[imetazoa]
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does anyone have any experience with the MEME/MAST motif program?
i submitted some sequences, and it gives you a readout w/ "multilevel consensus sequence" but it doesnt given you the percent of the consensus'.
help? | | Monday, January 3rd, 2005 | 10:26 pm
[galacticdust]
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Biotech issue
This issue arose as I was arguing with my Biotech prof in lecture today: if an organism has been genetically modified through modern methods (versus 'traditional' selective breeding), can it be considered organic if raised in the standard required conditions for being deemed as 'organic'? I believe that it cannot, though now that I think about it, I'm starting to be unsure and cannot find any online data pertaining to this.
Anyone? | | Thursday, December 30th, 2004 | 6:41 pm
[kevinblanchard]
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Early reviews of Xsan look good The current issue of Bio-IT World has an early review of Apple's new enterprise-class storage file system Xsan. Traditionally, file systems like NFS have become the bottleneck of clusters even moderately sized. NFS allows each node access to a portion of the head node's disk space on the RAID for read/write operations. The problem with this is that it does not allow full access to the entire RAID(s), only the head node's portion. Here comes Xsan to fill in those gaps. This article goes on to explain how the tests were done on the prerelease of Xsan and the improvement achieved when implementing it on the university of Pittsburgh's 125 node cluster. *You may also note this quote from the article for all the non-mac users running similar setups. "This is great, but you might be asking yourself, "Am I locked into using Apple's triple-X product offering to deploy this sort of technology on my cluster?" Although Apple might prefer it if you did, the answer is no. Apple has taken an aggressive open-technology stance within this architecture. The underlying Fibre Channel technology is standards-based. You can mix and match Fibre Channel cards and switches from Brocade, QLogic, Emulex, and so on. You can use Fibre Channel storage devices other than the Xserve RAID. Xsan's underlying cluster file system is compatible with ADIC's StorNext file system, so you can even mix in Linux, Solaris, Windows, etc., clients with corollary client software from ADIC." | | Wednesday, December 8th, 2004 | 6:47 pm
[kevinblanchard]
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Received from the mpiBLAST team mpiBLAST 1.3.0 has (finally) been released. It incorporates several major design changes that improve reliablilty, performance, and accuracy. Key enhancements are: - utilizes latest NCBI Toolbox (Oct 20, 2004) - E-value scores are exact and identical to scores reported by NCBI BLAST by using both the effective query and effective database lengths. (It is necessary/required to patch the NCBI Toolbox before compilation) - Database pipelining speeds up database distribution by limiting access to shared filesystem. Number of concurrent accesses is a run-time option (--concurrent). - Results pipelining reduces memory requirements for large query sets. - Database distribution can occur through cp, scp, or rcp system calls, through MPI function calls (MPI_Send/MPI_Recv), or not at all if you choose to use the shared filesystem as local storage. It is a runtime option (--copy-via). mpiBLAST version 1.3.0 was a long time in coming, but is the fastest, most exact, and most stable version of mpiBLAST yet. Download it here: http://mpiblast.lanl.gov | | Sunday, December 5th, 2004 | 3:15 pm
[kevinblanchard]
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| | Monday, November 22nd, 2004 | 10:08 pm
[kevinblanchard]
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| | Sunday, November 21st, 2004 | 2:35 am
[kevinblanchard]
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| | Thursday, November 18th, 2004 | 10:41 am
[kevinblanchard]
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Discussion piece A recent article talked about the "CSI effect" and how it has had a negative effect on some jury members, because many people feel that the technology used on CSI already exists. Today I play devils advocate :) In relation to some of the "tests" they do, do you feel that this fictional or nearly fictional display of technology is good for the innovation in the areas of DNA analysis, testing, etc? What are your other thoughts on the topic in general? Current Mood:  tired | 8:46 am
[beetourist]
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hello fellow nerds :) I'm Bee, I'm a PhD student in the UK, working with bioinformatics. I'm looking at the evolution of the mammalian genome in the context of LINE elements. Pretty rocking :) I hope this community takes off, Lj needs one :) ( look what the invitrogen lady gave me! ) | 1:26 am
[kevinblanchard]
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Welcome
I created this LJ community to allow people to discuss many of the broader issues in the BIOtech field. Whether your cup of tea is DNA, bio informatics, biology or just a jack of all trades feel free to contribute anything you think the group would find interesting.
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