Posted by on under th project, genome project, deases, human genome, interested researchers, genetic markers, forensic science, public database, ethnic background, project director, genetics, alg, volunteers, peoe, aims, biotechnology, decade, participants, medicine | 
Ian Lamont writes "The Personal Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of traits, ethnic background and other information of the first ten volunteers, which include the project director and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology. While the human genome was first sequenced at the beginning of this decade, what's special about this project is these 10 participants are having their names, genome, and other personal data gleaned from questionnaires shared openly on the Web, where interested researchers can freely access them. One of the ultimate aims of the project is to create a public database of 100,000 volunteers that researchers and other parties can use to determine what traits, diseases or other characteristics are associated with specific genetic markers. When asked why volunteers are requested to attach their names to the Web records, the project director said the data could be used by researchers in other fields outside of genetics, including forensic science and historical research. While this project opens the door for some interesting and potentially life-saving research, there may also be difficulties or problems for people whose records are posted on the Web. Would you participate? Would you share your name, along with your genome, disease history, and traits? Why or why not?"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Posted by on under community atmosphere, bragging rights, nano, novel, prizes, wiki, participants |
NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, is a competition to write a 50,000 word novel entirely in the month of November. It is a fun way to write in a community atmosphere. Although there are no prizes for winning (save the bragging rights), the accomplishment of having finished a 50,000 word novel in a month is a prize in itself.
NaNoWriMo is known as NaNo for short, and started when Chris Baty challenged some of his friends to write 50,000 words in one month in 1999. It has grown to over 100,000 participants worldwide, of whom more than 15,000 finished in 2007. [1]
Tagi: community atmosphere, bragging rights, nano, novel, prizes, wiki, participants
Posted by on under hungry hungry hippo, crosswalk sign, aero beds, google, food groups, comete, gizmo, hippo, red bull, meetup, teme, stati, hackers, robot, cy, boxes, participants, yahoo |
It's on. The
Disrupt Hackathon is fully underway, over 300 hackers are battling through the night to create the very best app, gizmo, robot (or whatever these crazy kids can come up with) within 24 hours. Thanks to the sponsorship of
Facebook,
Media Temple and
Air BnB, the hackers will have access to a pile of Aero beds and all the essential food groups: pizza and caffeine (boxes upon boxes of Red Bull). The Hackathon will have experts on hand to help participants with the APIs of Facebook, Yahoo!, SimpleGeo, Facebook, Etsy, Mashery, MeetUp and Google. For those who want to get their hands dirty, there's a scrapyard station in the back, complete with a Hungry, Hungry Hippo set, the circuit board for a crosswalk sign and a Winnie The Pooh in a wizard outfit (of course). Pictures ahead.
Tagi: hungry hungry hippo, crosswalk sign, aero beds, google, food groups, comete, gizmo, hippo, red bull, meetup, teme, stati, hackers, robot, cy, boxes, participants, yahoo
Posted by on under citizen science project, climate works, climate models, radio telescope, old ships, weather observations, locati, daily photos, logbooks, cervix, soma, logs, participants |
Old Weather is a citizen science project that asks its participants to parse out the contents of thousands of scanned pages from old nautical logbooks. Participants are asked to find the date, the location of the ship, and the weather observations made in the ship's log. These observations are being pieced together to create a better historical view of how climate works and how it has changed. These new, rare data points will help test and improve current climate models. Old Weather (via Kottke) Citizen science and why biodiversity is a great portal to ... BudBurst: Citizen science to study climate change Daily photos of a healthy cervix for one month Save this radio telescope for citizen science! Mark's new book: Made by Hand TedX SOMA vidstream today (with Pesco speaking)...
Tagi: citizen science project, climate works, climate models, radio telescope, old ships, weather observations, locati, daily photos, logbooks, cervix, soma, logs, participants
