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Archives for February, 2009
Sage – Open Access Data from Merck
Posted by John Wilbanks on February 27, 2009
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Big news today at the CHI Medicine Tri-Conference. Merck has pledged to donate a remarkable resource to the commons – a vast database of highly consistent data about the biology of disease, as well as software tools and other resources to use it. The resources come out of work done at the Rosetta branch of…
Back to life
Posted by John Wilbanks on February 23, 2009 Sorry for the long delay between posts. I was robbed at the beginning of the month, losing my laptop, passport, other pieces of digital technology and identification, house keys, work keys, pens, papers, business cards and so forth. I’m just now catching up with all the real-life work that piled up during the seven-days-without-a-computer phase.…