PySB: Biological models in Python

Each researcher spends quality time managing the literature that they have collected in the form of papers and PDF’s. However, the collection of PDF continues to grow and there are very little in the form of tools that help manage it. There are three(3) great open source tools that work wonderfully to manage the collection…

The video below explains it all. But essentially our perception is dependent on what we see. Wonder how many of these effects exist without us realizing it {youtube}FefFfvriAwQ{/youtube}

There are many ways to understand data mining and there are several tutorials on the subject. Dr. Susan Holmes at Stanford has been teaching and practicing different statistical methods and has significant insight into the process of teasing out information from complex data sets. She made an interesting observation in “The Theory that would not…

There have been a variety of prizes to solve problems that are practical such as space rocket. Some companies have made a business out of problem solving through mediating solvers and problem generators – such as those mediated by Innocentive. However, rarely are problems solved just for the sake of solution of the problem. One…

There are several ways to search for information and often times the easiest is to just type the keyword in a search engine like Google and hope that it would find the article of interest. However, things are not quite simple when you look for things and hundreds of hits come up. For example, if…