antibodypedia Using Antibodypedia Search and identify gene / protein target Compare and Select antibodies Explore antibody features and validations Sign up for our newsletter Version 8 - May 2013 Content updated 2014-04-09 1226278 reviewed antibodies from 49 providers,covering gene-products encoded by 19113 genes (approximately 92% of all human genes). Primary data available for 493295 experiments. Welcome Welcome to Antibodypedia, an open-access database of publicly available antibodies against human protein targets. News
22 free tools for data visualization and analysis You may not think you've got much in common with an investigative journalist or an academic medical researcher. But if you're trying to extract useful information from an ever-increasing inflow of data, you'll likely find visualization useful -- whether it's to show patterns or trends with graphics instead of mountains of text, or to try to explain complex issues to a nontechnical audience. There are many tools around to help turn data into graphics, but they can carry hefty price tags. The cost can make sense for professionals whose primary job is to find meaning in mountains of information, but you might not be able to justify such an expense if you or your users only need a graphics application from time to time, or if your budget for new tools is somewhat limited. If one of the higher-priced options is out of your reach, there are a surprising number of highly robust tools for data visualization and analysis that are available at no charge. Data cleaning DataWrangler
BioNumbers - The Database of Useful Biological Numbers Software: Is 'Social' Business Collaboration Just an Expensive Fad? I'm not sure that social networking technology -- particularly in the form that vendors are currently presenting it -- offers the best approach for improving business collaboration. Many of these vendors are asking corporations to make significant investments in applications that do little more than mimic Facebook. Webinar: The New PCI 3.0 Standard Learn the steps to take to get your company ready for PCI DSS 3.0 changes coming January 2015. Social networking technology has found a solid niche in the business world. Major corporations like Pepsi and Procter & Gamble have been so happy with the results of their various social media campaigns that they have shifted large portions of their advertising budgets from more traditional channels like print and television to the social networking realm. These trends also have grabbed the attention of business applications developers. Enhancing Business Collaboration How Is This Different? This Isn't Social Networking
The Biology Project Information retrieval Information retrieval is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Searches can be based on metadata or on full-text (or other content-based) indexing. Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called "information overload". Many universities and public libraries use IR systems to provide access to books, journals and other documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications. Overview[edit] An information retrieval process begins when a user enters a query into the system. An object is an entity that is represented by information in a database. Most IR systems compute a numeric score on how well each object in the database matches the query, and rank the objects according to this value. History[edit] Model types[edit] For effectively retrieving relevant documents by IR strategies, the documents are typically transformed into a suitable representation. Recall[edit]
Yes, We Should Clone Neanderthals | discussion | ethics 30,000 years ago a Neanderthal woman died in what would become Croatia’s Vindija cave. Five years ago, 454 Life Sciences and the Max Planck Institute started working together on the tedious and time-consuming task of piecing her fossilized DNA back together. Just over a month ago, they succeeded and, in the process, revealed that most of us are between 1% and 4% Neanderthal. To crudely paraphrase the ever artful Carl Zimmer, knowing where Neanderthals fit into the evolution of Homo sapiens is essential to understanding the development of the human mind. Knowing where Neanderthals fit, however, also creates a problem. The problem is, of course, that we don’t have a cloned Neanderthal. The argument may seem absurd and offensive at first. As the bioethicist Bernard Rollin points out in the Archaeology piece, there’s more to worry about than the law. Not so. To assert that the Neanderthal is between human and animal and is therefore an impossible fit for our world simply not true.
The 9 kinds of context that will define contextual search Yesterday I did the kick-off presentation and workshop at a strategy planning session of a major online media company. The intent was to provide some different perspectives on trends in digital media as input to their deliberations. One of the many topics I discussed was the rise of contextual search. Looking back over the last decade, I think it’s fair to say that the search experience has not evolved much. Clearly it is a nonsense to always get the same search result, irrespective of who you are and all of the conditions surrounding the search. At LeWeb ’10 Marissa Mayer of Google described “contextual discovery”: “The idea is to push information to people,” Mayer said. Here are 8 kinds of context that could be taken into account by information discovery engines (if the context is available). * Individual. * Demographic profile. * Interest profile. * Location. * Device. * Date. * Time. * Weather. * Mood. (Please add any thoughts on other relevant context in comments.) Push. Behaviors.
Tree of Life Web Project Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding News and Headlines Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man Humans Through history, as natural selection played its part in the development of modern man, many of the useful functions and parts of the human body become unnecessary. What is most fascinating is that many of these parts of the body still remain in some form so we can see the progress of evolution. Goose Bumps Cutis Anserina Humans get goose bumps when they are cold, frightened, angry, or in awe. Jacobson’s Organ Vomeronasal organ Jacobson’s organ is a fascinating part of animal anatomy and it tells us a lot about our own sexual history. Junk DNA L-gulonolactone oxidase While many of the hangovers from our “devolved” past are visible or physical, this is not true for all. Extra Ear Muscles Auriculares muscles Also known as the extrinsic ear muscles, the auriculares muscles are used by animals to swivel and manipulate their ears (independently of their head) in order to focus their hearing on particular sounds. Darwin’s Point plica semilunaris Contributor: JFrater Jamie Frater