"Layback /n./ what a climber looks forward to at the end of a day."
- Definitions on climbing
For the last couple of years, we’ve been homeschooling our two youngest kids. Gloria has been making sure they learn the easy subjects like history and mathematics. I’ve been making sure they also learn the hard subjects like, um, cinematography. So I’ve been making sure they view some of the great classics…
On 6 September, at 17:45 Vince Anderson and I stood on the windless summit of Nanga Parbat after six days of climbing. We had climbed a new, direct route on the Rupal Face. Famous for being one of the biggest, if not the biggest, wall in the world and because it saw its first ascent in 1970 by Reinhold and Gunther Messner…
I felt much better from my stomach illness. This is the 7th day since it began and according to Poncho it’ll last no longer. I went to the wall to train a little bit.
When I arrived to the place, the sky entered into some strange configuration. A big blue/gray cloud over the city and the bright orange sun at the opposite side. The flowers and the grass at the place got some beautiful golden tones, which lasted for almost 1 hour. The whole landscape was awesome!
I only did a single lap on the wall. I’m still too weak for endurance training and I didn’t want to force myself. Besides, I was kindly embraced by the burning orange light. So delightful… 
Comparative sequencing reveals enormous variation in genomes from horizontal gene transferIndividual strains of the bacterium Streptococcus agalactiae show so much diversity that sequencing even hundreds of genomes may not reveal all the genes present in the species, according to a study published in last week’s early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). This variation likely arises because bacteria easily take up DNA from their environment, through horizontal gene transfer and bacteriophage infection, according to the study’s authors. The new report also suggests that current methods of characterizing bacterial strains may not capture their genetic relationships…
Bouldering again. Cova and I met Jaime at Chiluca. He’s training for some Thailand hard sport climbing trip. We train just for the fun of it. New routes shared. Training circuits. How much fun you can get with an endless illness? Success, falling, pain…
I need to get rid of this fscking virus! 
We reviewed the basics of cellular automata and did some exercises. Pretty interesting subject! Another possibility for the final project…
The class ended an hour before schedule and I immediately ran home. My stomach entered into some self-destructive process and it didn’t felt so well… 
Even tough I haven’t recovered yet, I came out of the cave and went bouldering with Mau and Cova. My stubborness…
I’ve lost some weight but fortunately haven’t lost arm and finger strenght, so the bouldering was “relatively” easy. We managed to send some old and pending problems and created fresh and dangerous ones. We weren’t able to send them all, but they’re promising…
It was a very pleasant evening, I missed friends and nature too much!
With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of ‘omic’ data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount importance to realize the promise of systems biology. A recent trend in data standard development has been to use extensible markup language (XML) as the preferred mechanism to define data representations. But as illustrated here with a few examples from proteomics data, the syntactic and document-centric XML cannot achieve the level of interoperability required by the highly dynamic and integrated bioinformatics applications. In the present article, we discuss why semantic web technologies, as recommended by the World Wide Web consortium (W3C), expand current data standard technology for biological data representation and management…
Now I feel a little bit of nostalgia, I miss the Sierra… 
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Disclaimer: Issue 13 was our sport-climbing issue. We hope you didn't miss it.
Taken from Alpinist #14
