Check out the new Django Tutorial! Learn about different environments, internationalization & localization, testing, documentation, template inheritance…!
Source: TaskBuster Django Tutorial | Marina Mele’s site
Check out the new Django Tutorial! Learn about different environments, internationalization & localization, testing, documentation, template inheritance…!
Source: TaskBuster Django Tutorial | Marina Mele’s site
Source: The postdoc series: Finding the right lab : Naturejobs Blog
. The neural network was formed by linking traditional circuitry through a grid of wiring (technically a crossbar). Memristors were formed at each place the perpendicular wires crossed—first by placing the metal oxide layers at these locations and then by flowing current through to a ground.
Source: Neural network chip built using memristors | Ars Technica
Source: The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far.
The word ‘Wily‘ is used to describe someone who is skilled or adept, while a ‘werewolf‘ is a mythological creature has been popularised in fiction as a human who turns into a wolf on a full moon.
The Ubuntu 15.10 name has been announced, alongside details of a new Ubuntu Phone that aids Canonical’s plan for single device convergence.
Source: Ubuntu 15.10 Codename Announced (And a Whole Heap More)
The field of artificial intelligence is getting hotter by the moment as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and other tech companies snap up experts and pour funding into university research.
Source: Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand – WSJ
Is the natural world creative? Just take a look around it. Look at the brilliant plumage of tropical birds, the diverse pattern and…
Source: The Strange Inevitability of Evolution – Issue 20: Creativity – Nautilus
The map above shows the genetic makeup of European countries based on Haplogroups. These groups each share a common ancestor.
Source: The Genetic Map Of Europe – Brilliant Maps
The Bioinformatician
We are aware that gray zones exist and will likely always exist, even as the field of bioinformatics evolves. However, it will be easier to provide an answer to our question. As for the definition provided by OED, we propose that bioinformaticians are experts in the field of bioinformatics. They may be users, but this is not enough to consider them as bioinformaticians (i.e., an expert). Bioinformaticians are scientists who develop and conduct research based on a bioinformatics approach, they do not just use the tools to better understand a biological problem. It is a little like saying that driving your car to work does not make you a mechanic. A bioinformatician is a scientist who understands the underlying “mechanics” of bioinformatics or, more realistically, an aspect of bioinformatics (genomics, protein structure predictions, phylogenetic models, etc.). In a more conceptual framework, bioinformaticians can perhaps be seen as the “missing link” required for improving multidisciplinary research. Since they can bridge biological sciences, informatics, and mathematics, fully fledged bioinformaticians can be valuable assets for multidisciplinary studies. For example, more and more bioinformaticians are becoming involved in major multidisciplinary studies such as those on cancer (Hanauer et al., 2007; Valencia and Hidalgo, 2012) as well as in whole-exome sequencing (WES), which is an increasingly important method used in medical studies (Sanders et al., 2012; Wang et al., 2013; Zhu et al., 2015).
Source: Frontiers | Who qualifies to be a bioinformatician? | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology