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Lars Juhl Jensen

Research professor in disease systems biology at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen. Co-founder of the company Intomics. My specialty is data and text mining.

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Oct
14th
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Attending ICSB 2010: £435. Train ticket to Edinburgh: £58. Windows freezing during Microsoft Research VP’s talk: priceless
Oct
12th
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Luis Serrano presents results from numerous ‘omics studies of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. It looks like tetris to me, though ;-)

Luis Serrano presents results from numerous ‘omics studies of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. It looks like tetris to me, though ;-)

Aug
23rd
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E-SCIENCE and toilets this way …

E-SCIENCE and toilets this way …

Jul
24th
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Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose.
— Vannevar Bush, 1945
May
17th
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Science publishing now is like transporting needles in huge bales of hay. There is a tremendous amount of redundancy and padding in articles.
Jan Velterop
May
7th
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Sometimes you wish for a tab-delimited file …

Sometimes you wish for a tab-delimited file …

Mar
16th
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I can pretend to be a fission yeast and I can do it quite well
— Sir Paul Nurse
Nov
24th
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Q: What is Ontology? A: It Depends on What the Meaning of “Is” Is.
Aug
21st
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Phylogenetic tree reconstruction

Shamil Sunyaev gives a great overview on the many different algorithms and tools for reconstruction of phylogenetic trees.

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Global Mapping of Copy-Number Variants in Humans by Next-Generation Sequencing

Jan Korbel gives a beautiful example of how even high-resolution maps can be flawed. This old map of the world is pretty accurate except from Australia being absent.