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100,000 Articles - And The Data Scientists Who Mine Them - Bio-it World
Taxonomy evolution via text mining
AI also brought to the table a program called Data Harmony MAIstro (for Machine-Aided Indexing), which took over the job of assigning terms to individual articles. MAIstro is a text mining program that searches for phrases within the papers submitted to PLOS, and relates them…
A Monkey’s Blueprint | Sa Visual, Scientific American Blog Network
A genome is not a blueprint; it encodes a set of tools (proteins)
A blueprint shows you “what” but a genome doesn’t encode “what.” The genome can instead, be thought of as encoding a set of tools (proteins). It tells you nothing about what the function of each tool is, what the tools act on, how the tools act together or what the tools are…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Three kinds of information
Oxford professor of philosophy Luciano Floridi describes three flavors of the word information in modern science: “information as reality (e.g., as patterns of physical signals, which are neither true nor false), also known as ecological information; information about reality…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Nature and nurture each control half of intelligence
For all of us, nature controls about 50 percent of our intellectual horsepower, and environment determines the rest. This means two things for parents: First, no matter how hard your child tries, there will be limits to what his brain can do. Second, that’s only half of the…
Temperament is not just in the genes
So you can see temperament at birth, and it remains stable over time. Does that mean temperament is completely controlled by genes? Hardly. As we saw with the ice-storm children in the Pregnancy chapter, it is possible to create a stressed baby simply by increasing the mother’s…
Online Tools To Support Literature-based Discovery In The Life Sciences
Gene name ambiguity in literature-based discovery
Up to now, the emphasis of the text-mining techniques employed by LBD tools has been on the correct identification of biomedical terms in text. Most approaches use the UMLS Metathesaurus as the source of terms. When deploying LBD in a genomics context, this may be a limiting…
Strategic Reading, Ontologies, And The Future Of Scientific Publishing
Strategic reading within and across articles
Scientists may have moved well beyond traditional reading, but they still remain engaged with the narrative of scientific articles and need tools to help them read, and not only mine, that narrative. [...] Reading the sentences of an article in relevance order rather than…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Genetic determinism
There are actually three social maps—three theories of determinism widely accepted, independently or in combination, to explain the nature of man. Genetic determinism basically says your grandparents did it to you. That’s why you have such a temper. Your grandparents had short…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Brain connections make each of us unique
‘When you’re born, you’re born with pretty much all the brain cells you’ll ever have, but it’s the growth of the connections between those brain cells that accounts for the growth of the brain after birth. So, even if you’re a clone – that means an identical twin – you will…