pedrobeltrao

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by pedrobeltrao 12y ago
I started a group leader position (not tenured) since about 1 year ago in bioinformatics (UK). The trend only got worse since this article was written. It is particularly bad in biology but physics and chemistry are not much better off. The
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by pedrobeltrao 13y ago
I agree with the need for better visualization tools in biology. There is an interesting group/project started at UCSF and headed by Graham Johnson (www.grahamjlab.org/). Some of these tools are still closer to art than science but I think
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by pedrobeltrao 13y ago
Scientific publishers (as it stands) provide 3 services (publishing, filtering, accreditation) - these could be decoupled and that is what PLOS One, PeerJ and other folks working on "alternative" metrics of evaluation for scientific publish
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by pedrobeltrao 13y ago
It was tried and failed in the life sciences. Genome Biology and Nature tried to create pre-print servers but there was no adoption. You can still find Nature's server online (precedings.nature.com). Why have they failed ? I don't know. I t
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
Protein folding is an interesting and computational challenging task. So challenging that some groups have sort of given up on it and move to other fields. Look up David Baker and Rosetta for more info. This is just an example, there are ma
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
I just got a group leader position in the UK (currently a postdoc in the bayarea) and I am paying some attention to these experiments in crowdfunding for academic projects. In almost all group leader or faculty position, the research budget
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
I also disagree with a proliferation of micro self publishing without having an aggregation systems in place first. For the HN community it is obvious that the aggregation can be done post-publication and in theory there are many different
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
I wanted to add a perspective from someone who comes from a European country (Portugal) and have been living in the California for the past 4 and half years. Forgive me for the generalizations but one thing that I admire about Americans (at
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
I think the author of the post is completely underestimating how many different fields require some proficiency in managing data. I work in biology (genomics and proteomics) and I teach a summer course to biomed PhD students where I try to
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
well, you can find a job in a bio related research lab as a programmer but you would earn (at least) 2/3 times more in a company.
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
You can consider just volunteering to do a project for a biology lab. You have the tools (quantitative thinking, programming, etc) but to work in biology you need to know about some specific biology knowledge domain. There is shortcut, you
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by pedrobeltrao 14y ago
Unfortunately, as far as I know there is very little useful phenotypic data along with these genomes to work with. I would rather have fewer genome sequences with better phenotypic information. Even with just 35 genome sequences of "individ
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by pedrobeltrao 15y ago
Scientists still publish Elsevier because of the so called "impact factor" of some of these journals. As a young researcher currently looking for tenure-track positions in academia I can tell you that it is still extremely important to publ