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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) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

“True Knowledge”: Another search engine

I previously commented on Wolfram Alpha and PowerSet. Fisheye Perspective now brings my attention to another “answer engine” as they are called these days: True Knowledge. You have to sign up for an account in order to test it, which I have yet to do, but one feature that’s immediately appealing is that users can add […]

Posted 16 June 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Two new-ish search engines

Recently, while reading about methods for manipulating RDF, I discovered the search engine PowerSet. More recently, Wolfram Research’s Wolfram Alpha launched. There’s been no shortage of new search engines in the past year or so – Cuil is one that was much publicized but ended up remarkably useless – but these two still impress me. PowerSet […]

Posted 26 May 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Research idea: a snapshot

As part of an application form I had to fill out recently, I had to write a summary of my research ideas. Of course this changes all the time, since I’m still searching for a precise topic (and probably will be for a long time). But this is what a snapshot of those thoughts, taken […]

Posted 19 May 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,