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A web-based program that simplifies many tricky steps involved in designing artificial DNA has been released by US microbiologists.The software suite, called GeneDesign, should make it easier for researchers to modify and study DNA. The cost of gene synthesis is rapidly falling with dozens of companies around the world now offering to create genes to order from the chemical components of DNA…
New Scientist: Web program simplifies artificial gene design
There’s no reason that web developers should have all the fun. Web 2.0 APIs enable fascinating collaborations between developers and an extended community of developer-users. Extension and configuration APIs added to traditional applications can generate the same benefits.Of course, extensibility isn’t a particularly new idea. Many applications have a plugin framework (think Photoshop) or an extension language (think Emacs). What if you could provide a seamlessly integrated, fully dynamic language with a conventional syntax while increasing your application’s size by less than 200K on an x86? You can do it with Lua!
Interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick, Computer Scientist and early BSD developer at UC Berkeley…
For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel — at least, that’s the ideal. In practice, code reuse remains very low, because it’s often too hard for programmers to find relevant bits of code for their applications.
A new search engine for programmers promises to alleviate that problem by making it easier to find and share code. That in turn could increase programmers’ productivity and give a fresh boost to the open-source movement…
A new route and a couple of superb repeats have been accomplished in Patagonia in the past few weeks. Alexander Huber and Stephan Siegrist climbed a 25-pitch new route up the south face of Aguja Desmochada, reaching the summit at 10 a.m. after a single bivy 800 feet below the top. The new line, Golden Eagle, went almost completely free at 5.11+; they aided only one 15-foot stretch.On Fitz Roy, the South American team of Edemilson Padilha (Brazil), Valdesir Machado (Brazil) and Gabriel Otero (Argentina) made the second ascent of the Afanasieff Route, a 5,500-foot line up the mountain’s northwest ridge, first climbed by a French team in 1979. The trio climbed the route in 36 hours in pure alpine style.
Finally, in the Torres del Paine, the Belgian team of Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Séan Villanueva and Micke Lecomte repeated the 36-pitch Riders on the Storm on the east face of the Central Tower in an 11-day climb, without returning to the ground. This 4,200-foot route was pioneered over a month and a half in 1990-91 by Wolfgang Güllich, Kurt Albert, Bernd Arnold, Norbert Bätz and Peter Dittrich, with difficulties up to 5.12d A3. The Belgians used aid only on a couple of icy pitches high on the route. The team is now climbing in the Fitz Roy group.
Source: Climbing Magazine
As Yosemite greeted another spring in May 1974, a motley collection of teenage climbers prepared to make their mark on the Valley. Hailing mainly from Southern California, they confidently called themselves the Stonemasters, a name they chose after a basement session of smoking marijuana. Besides a hefty sense of humor, the only requirement for membership in the group was an ascent of Valhalla, which at the time was the only 5.11 route at Tahquitz Rock.For several years the Stonemasters had diligently done their homework, relentlessly honing their free-climbing skills, because they had one goal in mind. ‘We were hell-bent on demolishing the standards,’ said John Long, the most powerful and imposing member of the group…
“Thursday evening at Chiluca”, this is becoming the standard for having great bouldering sessions…
Postgenomic aggregates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data.
For example, it allows you to get an instant picture of which web sites are being heavily linked to by researchers in the medical sciences, or which papers are being cited or reviewed most often by bioinformaticians, or which buzzwords are being used the most frequently by evolutionary biologists.
It’s sort of like a hot papers meeting with the entire biomed blogging community.
Sort of.
Postgenomic’s primary purpose is to act as a central repository for reviews of scientific papers and for conference reports. You can help with this by adding some very simple semantic markup to your blog posts when you write a review of a paper. In this context a “review” isn’t necessarily a particularly long or critical assessment of the paper (though it could be): it’s simply any information that other researchers might find useful.
The site is raising good comments, take a look at it and if you have any thoughts Stew will be happy to hear them.
The best of all: Postgenomic is an open project and anybody is welcome to participate in its building and development. Nice job Stew! 
Vince Anderson and Steve House were awarded the 2005 Piolet d’Or in Grenoble on February 10th, 2006. The award, recognizing the best alpine climb of the year, has been presented annually since 1991 by the Groupe de Haute Montagne (GHM) and Montagnes Magazine…
Phase 1 of the International HapMap Project, published in November 2005, was hailed by the mainstream press as a revolutionary tool for gene-association studies. Researchers using the data have been similarly enthusiastic. Says Jeanette McCarthy of the Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, “It’s an unprecedented resource. … It provides a lot more information not just for people doing whole genome association studies, but [also] for those focused on specific regions of the genome or even candidate genes. It can add a lot of information and help us pinpoint the genes a lot easier”…
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