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Maschinenfest 2010 highlights

My Maschinenfest roundup, featuring my top five acts of the festival — Frl. Linientreu, Matta, Niveau Zero, Subheim and Architect — is online now at Connexion Bizarre.

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2010 11 10 Andrew Reviews Comments (1)

RapidMiner tutorial, 25 Nov 2010

For the next BioGeeks Tech Meet, I’ll be giving a tutorial on RapidMiner, the nifty data analysis package. RapidMiner — machine learning for the rest of us All are welcome. Although I’ll be using examples from biology, there’s nothing bio-specific in RapidMiner, and it might be useful/interesting to geeks of other varieties too.

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2010 11 01 Andrew Comments (3)

October BioGeeks at Imperial — next gen sequencing

This month’s London BioGeeks will be at Imperial on the 21st of October. This month we’re bringing you a special selection of talks on next generation sequencing: Experience in variant calling from exome sequencing Francesco Lescai, Elia Stupka Sequencing whole exomes in order to identify high penetrant variants in few individuals is becoming relatively easy, [...]

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2010 10 07 Andrew Comments (0)

BioGeeks tech meet, Oct 2010 — looking for speaker

The next London BioGeeks tech meet will be on 21st of October at Imperial College — full details to follow. We’re looking for another speaker. If you want to do an informal talk on a topic to do with bioinformatics, genomics, or any practical tech subject that might be of interest to biogeeks — cloud [...]

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2010 09 30 Andrew Comments (0)

BioGeeks tech meet, Science HackDay special

This month’s BioGeeks meeting at KCL is on Friday, June 18th, to coincide with the Science HackDay taking place over the weekend. We have a special guest this month, Cameron Neylon, with an open-science-themed talk entitled “What have the public done for us?” Plus lightning talks on various subjects. In other news, I’ve moved the [...]

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2010 06 15 Andrew Comments (3)

London BioGeeks — May Tech Meet is next week

The May tech meet is on Thursday 20th at Imperial College. This month’s speakers: Catherine Canevet — Ondex: Data integration and visualisation Christopher Barnes — ABC-SysBio: Approximate Bayesian Computation in Python with GPU support N. Purswani, L. Tweedy, Z. Patel, C. Suriel-Melchor — DASbrick: A cloud based Rich internet application for Synthetic Biology Parts Registries [...]

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2010 05 13 Andrew Comments (0)

Take Back Parliament demonstration — Sat 8 May

As someone who works with numbers, I’ve known for ages the electoral system in the UK is a very poor model. The distribution of votes across the parties correlates very badly with the distribution of seats they get in return. It’s possible, and not uncommon, for a party’s overall vote share to go down and [...]

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2010 05 07 Andrew Comments (0)

London BioGeeks — April Tech Meet

This month’s tech meet is at 6pm on 21st April at University College London. We have talks from… Alison Cuff, UCL The CATH database — Structural Diversity and the Question of the Fold Continuum Andrew Martin, UCL SAPTF — Sequence Analysis Plugin Tool Framework John Pinney, Imperial College GLASS — Gene LAyout by Semantic Similarity [...]

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2010 04 19 Andrew Comments (0)

More live gigs!

I’ll also be running an interactive workshop on FuncNet at: The EMBRACE-ENFIN workshop on Expression, Interactions, and System Level Modeling Helsinki, 5th-6th October 2009

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2009 06 26 Andrew Announcements Comments (0)

Live gigs!

Couple of upcoming events I’ll be going to… 1. Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2009) in Manchester next month, with a poster and abstract about FuncNet. 2. EMBL-EBI/ENFIN 2009 annual forum for small-medium enterprises (SMEs), in Vienna in September, with a half-hour talk on the same subject. No ISMB for me this year, [...]

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2009 06 04 Andrew Announcements Comments (1)