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Monthly Archives September 2012

A time to build barriers

Countries like Japan thrive on barriers to information flow. It is hard to overstate how deep and wide the rift caused by linguistic differences between Japanese and Indo-European languages is. The number of people who speak both very good English/German/French etc and very good Japanese is small and unlikely to grow dramatically. Yet there is […]

Posted 22 September 2012 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

The “Friedrich principles” for bioinformatics software

I’ve just come back from Biohackathon 2012 in Toyama, an annual event, traditionally hosted in Japan, where users of semantic web technologies (such as RDF and SPARQL) in biology and bioinformatics come together to work on projects. This was a nice event with an open and productive atmosphere, and I got a lot out of […]

Posted 13 September 2012 † johan § Bioinformatics § Computer science § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,