Biweekly links for 04/07/2008
- The Real Watership Down.
- A collection of photos and information about places from Richard Adams’ book.
- Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?
- Stimulating essay on how biology is done.
- Automated scientific discovery
- By putting large databases of papers in machine-readable format, it is possible to do automated inferences from them. This paper describes examples of medical discoveries that have been made this way.
- Scibuntu – Ubuntu Linux for scientist and science students
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Jacks of Science − Networking Scientific Literature said,
April 11, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
[...] It’s not out of our reach either, we have the technology! This post was inspired by a paper, published almost 20 years ago, Medical literature as a potential source of new knowledge, which was recently posted on Michael Nielsen’s blog. [...]
Alexei said,
April 12, 2008 @ 12:00 am
The automated scientific discovery is really interesting – but the article explaining it is 18 years old! What happened? Was it not as useful as they thought or is it waiting to be re-discovered?