Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

New Software: Data Mining

Some new software is in our Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining section. I can remember a time when “data mining” was a bit of an epithet in science (like “fishing expedition”), but now it has become an established way of … Continue reading

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Researching Open Science

I don’t know how I missed this before, but there’s a really interesting article from 2006 up at the Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge” site. It details some of Karim Lakhani‘s results from a paper called ‘The Value of Openness … Continue reading

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Cool Radiohead interactive video

So, I like Radiohead. A lot. Kid A has been in permanent rotation in my music collection for a couple of years now. But their new video for House of Cards is something else entirely. It was generated from 3-D … Continue reading

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Automated out-of-plane finder?

The code I’ve been working on has some cool features. If you give it a list of atoms and bonds, it automatically figures out bend and dihedral interactions using simple graph concepts. That is, if the molecule has a bond … Continue reading

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FooCamp? BarCamp?

One of the more interesting aspects of the New Communication Channels workshop was something called the “SciBarCamp” that was organized by Jen Dodd. I’d never been at a meeting which used this format before, and I was a bit dubious … Continue reading

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Cool finds at the NCCB2008 workshop

Some of the cooler online resources that have been discussed at the NCCB2008 workshop: OpenWetWare The international genetically engineered machines competition (IGEM) Registry of Standard Biological Parts Nature Precedings Proteopedia The Open Protein Structure Annotation Network (TOPSAN) SciVee.tv FriendFeed

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New Communication Channels for Biology Workshop

I’m going to be giving a talk at the “New Communication Channels for Biology” Workshop run by the CalIT2 folks at UCSD. The workshop is Thursday and Friday, and there are going to be some interesting folks like Michael Nielsen, … Continue reading

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Praat: doing Phonetics by Computer

Praat is an integrated software workbench for studying phonetics on real-life sound data. Find Praat: doing Phonetics by Computer at: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

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OpenSim

OpenSim is an open-source software system that lets users develop models of musculoskeletal structures and create dynamic simulations of movement. The software provides a platform on which the biomechanics community can build a library of simulations that can be exchanged, … Continue reading

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SimTK core

The SimTK Core project collects together all the hardware-independent binaries needed for the various SimTK Core subprojects. These include SimTKcommon, Simmath, Simmatrix, Simbody, CPodes, IPopt, and much more. See the individual projects for descriptions. Find SimTK core at: https://simtk.org/home/simtkcore

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