Nicolas le Novère

April 17, 2009

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Google

Filed under: Googleology — Duncan Hull @ 4:00 pm
Tags: Adam Kilgarriff, Alistair Miles, Allyson Lister, Alon Halevy, Andrew Clegg, Artificial Intelligence, bioformats, Biomodels, bootstrep, ChEBI, David Shotton, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Eugene Wigner, Fernando Pereira, Frank van Harmelen, Gene Ontology, Googleology, Googleplex, Jim Hendler, Larry Page, Michael Uschold, Nicolas le Novère, OBO, Opinion, Ora Lassila, Peter Norvig, provocative, pubmed, PubMedCentral, reasoner, Reasoning, sbml, scifoo, Sergey Brin, Steffano Mazzocchi, Tim Berners-Lee, unreasonable

Via the Official Google Research Blog at the University of Google, Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig and Fernando Pereira have published an interesting expert opinion piece in the March/April 2009 edition of IEEE Intelligent Systems: computer.org/intelligent. The paper talks about embracing complexity and making use of the “the unreasonable effectiveness of data” [1] drawing analogies with the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” [2]. There is plenty to agree and disagree with in this provocative article which makes it an entertaining read. So what can we learn from those expert Googlers in the Googleplex? (more…)

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October 10, 2008

PhD studentships at EMBL-EBI, UK

Filed under: informatics,omics — Duncan Hull @ 10:12 am
Tags: Christoph Steinbeck, ebi, embl, genome campus, Matt Wood, Nick Goldman, Nicolas le Novère, Paul Flicek, phd, research, sanger, studentship, Wellcome Trust

Any budding biomedical scientists out there, interested in doing a PhD, take note: The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) – European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is having an open day on Monday 3rd November 2008. According to their website the EBI is “happy to welcome all Master students to this day”. Some talks at this open day include:

Welcome and Introduction Cath Brooksbank
PhD opportunities at the EBI Nick Goldman
PhD experience at the EBI – computers, cells and cookies Heidi Dvinge
1000 genomes project Paul Flicek
The truth about Systems Biology: Nicolas le Novère
Small molecules: Christoph Steinbeck, see SteinBlog
Extreme Informatics Matt Wood see homepage and Green is Good blog

The EMBL-EBI lies in the 55 acres of landscaped parkland in rural Cambridgeshire that make up the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus. The Campus also houses the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, making it one of the world’s largest concentrations of expertise in genomics and bioinformatics. See also PhD Studies in Bioinformatics at the EBI. If you are interested in attending, sign up at the registration page before the 20th October.

March 19, 2008

Genomes to Systems 2008: Day Two

Filed under: sysbio — Duncan Hull @ 10:15 am
Tags: Alfonso Valencia, ArrayExpress, biocreative, copasi, elixir, enfin, ensembl, G2S, genomics, Hiroaki Kitano, Michael Hucka, nactem, nasa, Nicolas le Novère, pathtext, payao, sbgn, sbml, sbo, Sophia Ananiadou, systems biology, text mining

Genomes to Systems is a biannual conference held in Manchester covering the latest post-genome developments. Here are some brief and incomplete notes on some of the speakers and topics from day two of the 2008 conference. (more…)

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