Gideon Lichfield liest und kommentiert John Perry Barlows 20 Jahre alte Unabhängigkeitserklärung des Cyberspace . Einerseits scheint ihm Barlows Glaube an ein technologisches Utopia rührend naiv, andererseits beschreibt Barlow Entwicklungen, die die Auseinandersetzungen ums Urheberrecht, Facebooks „Social Graph“ und die Bewertungssysteme der Sharing Economy geradezu vorwegnehmen.
Last Christmas we gave you our heart; okay forget George Michael – we gave you beautiful imaging data sets, Virtual Machines, BYO data parties, GigaGitHub, more open peer review plus much more.
Pregnant Starfish go Big Data. Brittle stars are a class of organisms that are closely related to starfish. While most members of this group reproduce externally, there are some species that develop their young internally and ‘give birth’ to live young.
Ecology data in the 21st Century: multiscaled, and with “big” potential At GigaScience we are always promoting and finding new ways to foster open data, open science and reproducibility.
With our focus on large-scale biological data, mass spectrometry has been one area of particular interest and attention. Metabolomics involves the detection and quantification of small molecules (metabolites) in living organisms using mass spectrometers.
The software application PLINK is one of the most widely used tools in bioinformatics, particularly for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that look at genetic variants in different individuals to see if any variant is associated with a trait. With the advent of the thousand dollar genome, the computational demands being made on such programs are exploding.
Tītitipounamu, Rifleman, female (left) and male (right) Our New Zealand based Commissioning Editor, Nicole Nogoy, was asked by Creative Commons Aotearoa (New Zealand) to write a guest blog on open licensing from a Kiwi perspective. Being big users and fans of their licenses we were happy to oblige.
Datenauswertung unter dem Schlagwort „Big Data“ begegnet uns an immer mehr Orten. Dabei beginnen wir erst langsam zu erkennen, welcher Wert in unseren Daten liegt und wie ihre Nutzung reguliert werden könnte. Doch das sollten wir als Erstes klären. Der Mathematiker Clive Humby erkannte bereits vor vielen Jahren den Wert unserer Daten. Im Jahr 2006 sagte Humby: „Daten sind das neue Öl.“ Sind Daten tatsächlich der Rohstoff des 21. Jahrhunderts?
The field of synthetic biology, designing and building engineered biological systems through DNA synthesis and genetic engineering, is rapidly moving to a genome scale. In a similar trajectory to genomic sequencing and genome projects two decades ago, it has moved from engineering single genes, entire synthetic bacterial genomes (J Craig Venter’s notorious “Synthia”), to the eukaryotic organism stage.
