Note: a repost of a 2010 post I published for Ada Lovelace day. Unfortunately, I am too busy these days to write a new one. “Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated today to “…raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.” So without further ado: She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration […]
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For Ada Lovelace Day: Florence Nightingale
By Iddo on October 15th, 2013
blogging, Evolution, Genomics, Metagenomics
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Blogosphere catches: Marco Island, finding Ada and blog carnivals
By Iddo on March 2nd, 2010
Some interesting events cropped up recently. The Marco Island Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting was heavily tweeted and blogged about. Pacific Biosciences unveiled their third generation sequencer. Ostensibly, it can sequence reads of 20,000 length, but the fraction of actual long reads in a run, and their quality is still a bit hazy. […]