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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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?