PolITiGenomics
Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics
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About PolITiGenomics
PolITiGenomics is a blog by David Dooling about the confluence (and sometimes incongruence) of several of the most important topics surrounding the future of human health: genomics, information technology, and politics. Entries will cover topics including genomics research, next-generation sequencing technologies, informatics, computer hardware and software, free software, and politics.
Using the next-generation sequencing statistics table
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
Since posting the next-generation sequencing informatics statistics table I have received several requests asking if they could reproduce the table in one format or another. The answer is yes, as ... Read more..The Bully YouTube
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »
In recent years, the term "bully pulpit" has erroneously become conflated with the modern meaning of the word bully, someone who harasses or intimidates. As such, people see the term ... Read more..Just words
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty ... Read more..Politics and the English Language
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »
This past weekend, Newsweek posted a good story about one of my favorite authors, George Orwell. The story, entitled Why We Need to Call a Pig a Pig (With Or ... Read more..Open access under attack
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 8 Comments »
Since Congress voted to encourage NIH to adopt an open access policy for scholarly publications that resulted from research it funded, the journal publishers have lobbied Congress to reverse it. ... Read more..MLK
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »
Early morning, April 4 A shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride In the name of love Pride (in the Name of ... Read more..Patenting the A-Bomb
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »
As you may have intuited from some previous posts, I am a big proponent of free software (or free/libre/open source software (FLOSS)). For many involved in this arena, the ... Read more..Creative Commons
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics, politics | 2 Comments »
All original content on this blog is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. That means you are free to use, share, remix, etc. the content of ... Read more..All original content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
