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Self Organizing Maps in Python
Self-Organizing Maps is a form of machine learning technique which employs unsupervised learning. It means that you don't need to explicitly tell the SOM about what to learn in the input data. It automatically learns ...
I am an ENTP
What's that? Well, ENTP means Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving. I took this online personality test recommed by Jonathan Dugan. I am highlighting some of the basic features of an ENTP.
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Game Theory and Cancer
Do these things have anything in common? If you think no, then think again because the genius lies in connecting unconnected concepts in a meaningful manner. Robert Axelrod, a political scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, US, has applie...
Perl V/S Python
There is much hype (or truth? ) around the net that [URL=http://www.perl.com/]Perl[/URL] is THE language for bioinformatics. Having already learnt and programmed in [URL=http://www.python.org/]Python[/URL], I somehow feel that the claims made by any prog...
YASBC – Yet Another Synthetic Biology Coverage
See this [URL=http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7854314]Life 2.0[/URL]. ...
Engineering life through Synthetic Biology
Dear All,
This is to inform that our review paper titled: "Engineering life through Synthetic Biology" has been published in the journal In Silico Biology. The paper can be read at: [URL=http://www.bioinfo.de/isb/2006/06/0038/]http://www.bioinfo...
Training the immune system to fight HIV
[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9737&feedId=online-news_rss20]This news story[/URL] writes about a new strategy for combating HIV. The summary of the method is this. A sample of HIV is removed from the patient's body. Outside the body, ...
Digital Evolution
Have you heard of the names [URL=http://www.his.atr.jp/~ray/tierra/]Tierra[/URL], [URL=http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/]Avida[/URL] or [URL=http://www.greythumb.org/twiki/bin/view/GreyThumb/Nanopond]Nanopond[/URL]? If you are an evolutionary biologist (or...
Plants show evolvability!
A group of researchers have "accidentaly" found that the plant [i]Arabidopsis[/i] can pass on its ability for greater homologous recombination in case of stressed environment to its offsprings. It is quite intruiging because this increased tendency for...