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Search giant Google has been accused of being the “biggest threat to genetic privacy” for its alleged plan to create a searchable database of genetic information.

Google was presented with an award as part of the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy in Curitiba, Brazil, this week. The organisers allege that Google’s collaboration with genomic research institute J. Craig Venter, to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet, is a clear example of biopiracy…

ZDNet UK News: Google accused of bio-piracy

The party began right after the exam and consisted of a diverse mix of beers, wines and caipirihnas. Octavio bought an excellent selection of imported beers for celebrating and the party’s highlight was some canadian beer named Trois Pistoles. Hey man, that’s a REAL beer! Delicious!! Congrats again my friend, you’re such a gourmet for drinks!!!

Fortunately, the radiography showed that no bones were broken from yesterday’s fall. The sad news: I need mandatory rest for 10 days at least…

Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:42:45 AM
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Subject: [OBF] Announcing BOSC 2006

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR SPEAKERS

The 7th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2006) is organized by the not-for-profit Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The meeting will take place Aug 4, 5th in Fortaleza, Brasil, and is one of several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. Please consult The Official BOSC 2006 Website at

http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2006

for details and information.

In addition, a BOSC weblog has been setup to make it easier to desiminate all BOSC related announcements:

http://wiki.open-bio.org/boscblog/

And if you have an ICAL compatible Calendar, there is an EventDB calendar set up with all BOSC related deadlines.

http://eventful.com/groups/G0-001-000014747-0

More information about ISMB can be found at the Official ISMB 2006 Website:

http://ismb2006.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/

Thank You, and we look forward to seeing you all,
The BOSC Organizing Committee.

By the afternoon Cova called and we went to Chiluca for some bouldering. We met Dario there and we did some great new problems in that incredible cave. Despite my lack of climbing for more that 2 weeks, I felt strong and managed to do some tricks. Unfortunately, I had a bad fall over my left foot and twisted my ankle. I stopped climbing immediately. I don’t have any visible contusion but it hurts when I’m walking.

Maybe I’ll have to visit the doctor tomorrow…

Great landscape!

I love cold weather, but this is far too much for this time of the year and in such a tropical place…

Vast numbers of noncoding regulatory sequences may lurk in nonconserved DNA that are not detected by techniques typically used to identify these sequences, suggests research appearing online this week in Science. These findings have already triggered plans for subsequent investigations to uncover functional DNA that previous studies may have missed…

The Scientist: Regulatory DNAs may be missed

Metabolic networks come in just four basic types, according to a bioinformatics study in this week’s Science, which also shows that oxygen is required for the largest and most complex networks. The enzymatic reactions that take place in oxygen-dependent networks evolved after molecular oxygen appeared on Earth around 2.2 billion years ago, and some of these adaptations may have been important in a subsequent explosion of multicellular life, according to the authors…

The Scientist: How oxygen changed metabolism

In the last two decades advances in computing technology, from processing speed to network capacity and the internet, have revolutionized the way scientists work. From sequencing genomes to monitoring the Earth’s climate, many recent scientific advances would not have been possible without a parallel increase in computing power – and with revolutionary technologies such as the quantum computer edging towards reality, what will the relationship between computing and science bring us over the next 15 years?

Nature Web focus: 2020 – Future of Computing