More music & genes

Conversion of amino-acid sequence in proteins to classical music: search for auditory patterns
Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey H Miller
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1489, USA

We have converted genome-encoded protein sequences into musical notes to reveal auditory patterns without compromising musicality. We derived a reduced range of 13 base notes by pairing similar amino acids and distinguishing them using variations of three-note chords and codon distribution to dictate rhythm. The conversion will help make genomic coding sequences more approachable for the general public, young children, and vision-impaired scientists.

Vía What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate

Gender Genie

Write 500 words and Gender Genie will predict your gender.

The Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author.

My gender prediction was wrong. I guess it’s a ‘blockquote’ side effect
Vía Adventures in Ethics and Science

Second Science

Science &Second Life:

• Second Nature and the American Chemical Society (Nascent)
• Second Life groups on Nature Netword
• Virtual Medical Center: the Future of Medical Education (Science Roll)
• Medicine in Second Life: virtual doctors, hospitals, and of course, sperm donation (Science Roll)
• Virtual Science in Second Life ( The force that through…)

Bioconductor 2.0

Bioconductor is an open source and open development software project
for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. Bioconductor 2.0 was released 26 April, 2007. This release is designed for R 2.5.0. View the packages here.

When you smoke…

Vía Medgadget

Música génica

La alcohol deshidrogenasa, que no es una hormona, suena a fiesta.
Más en Genetic Music. Vía Genetics and health

LabAction

LabAction: Share your videos with Biology community.

LabAction mission is to build a community that is highly motivated to watch and share biology videos.

De momento contiene la friolera de 5 vídeos (públicos). Pero bueno, la criatura es joven.

Biowep

Biowep: a workflow enactment portal for bioinformatics applications
Paolo Romano, Ezio Bartocci , Guglielmo Bertolini , Flavio De Paoli , Domenico Marra , Giancarlo Mauri , Emanuela Merelli and Luciano Milanesi.

Biowep is a web-based client application that allows for the selection and execution of a set of predefined, annotated workflows involving access to and retrieval from bioinformatics tools, either databases or software tools.