"Brittle techniques"
I was pointed to a rant from early last year written by Fred Ross: “A farewell to bioinformatics”.
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Without the code, it's hand-waving
A new post by C. Titus Brown is worth reading: “Anecdotal science”
Sequencing is outpacing computing
The New York Times notices DNA sequencing’s Malthusian trap: “DNA sequencing caught in deluge of data.”
The problems of computer-aided biologists, 1
On the subject of modeling in genetics, John Timmer of Ars Technica has been running an excellent series on the challenges of computer models in biology. I’l...
Microsoft tries to patent the comparative method
Elizabeth Pennisi writes in Science about a case where computer scientists and their lawyers are bumbling through biology: