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The $24 Poor Man’s Social Media Expression Pattern Database (PoMaSoMeExpPaDa)

September 17, 2008

Expression pattern images are some of the most information-rich data housed at model organism databases. They are time consuming to generate. They are time consuming to collect and annotate.
Moreover, copyright restrictions mean that many images remain captive at publisher’s websites, unable to be placed within the rich intellectual framework that exists [...]

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Implementing a simple web-log based recommender system

July 25, 2008

I’ve now implemented such a system as an extension to Catalyst, the open source Perl web framework. The system isn’t yet ready for general distribution, but I’d like to share my approach.
First, I’ve gathered ten years of web access logs from WormBase, a generic model organism database where I work as the project manager.
Next, [...]

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Recommender systems for biological databases

July 25, 2008

Recommender systems [Wikipedia] seek to provide users with information related to what they are currently browsing. These are now ubiquitous in e-commerce sites such as Amazon, where each page contains a list of items viewed or purchased by other users.
I’ve long felt that a recommender system could revolutionize the browsing and mining of biological [...]

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Social media and career advancement

June 1, 2008

Burgeoning scientists take note: Mitch Joel at Twist Image / Six Pixels of Separation has a great post on using social media for career development.

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