Genomics as a Big Data science

in  “Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?” researchers discuss the emergence of genomics as a big data science and it’s consequences in terms of techniques and methodology.

New technologies are required to meet the computational challenges.  Genomical progress challenges scientific community for concerted effort.

Their research compares genomics with Astronomy, Youtube, and Twitter – all major source from the tons of new data being added lately.

“The spiritual use of an orchard or garden of fruit trees” by Ralph Austen

Published first in 1653 as a companion to the book  A Treatise on Fruit-trees, showing the manner of grafting, setting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects. this book is a testament to the fact that love for trees and the recognition of the benefits of human contact with trees is far from a XYZ generation fad.

Brain interconnected as an intranet

In “Building an organic computing device with multiple interconnected brains” researchers Miguel Pais-Vieira, Gabriela Chiuffa, Mikhail Lebedev, Amol Yadav, and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis introduces application of brain-to-brain interfaces.

Such interfaces are ways to receive from and send stimuli directly to animal’s brains.  In this papers experiments, rats.

Applications such as animal social behavior, sensorial phenomena and other insight into animal cognitive process are in the prospect of such – rather invasive – techniques.

Indirectly, it may be very intersting to use such neurological logs in reverse: how should our own, A.I. neural systems benefit from interconnectivity?