Coast To Coast Bio Podcast

In the first episode of 2011, Deepak and Hari talk about new endeavors by MacMillan, about post-publication peer review, about computational science and good software, and get all giddy about virtual machines and javascript drawing programs. Show Notes Digital Science Article by Declan Butler Trial by Twitter Annotatr J-STOR Crossref Principles of Computational Science Software … Continue reading Episode 36: The USB slot on the left side →

Chris Lasher did ask, so we deliver In this information packed episode we catch up, talk about blogging, podcast, other content and whether we are moving away from them.  We also talk about Arsenic life, automated deployment, and various sundry matters Shownotes This Week in Virology The Pipeline AppleTV Roku Quora BioStar MajorGroove Micro Instances … Continue reading Episode 35: The Grinch didn’t steal c2cbio →

Editors note: We’ve had some trouble keeping c2cbio up lately, so this episode is very late. In Episode 34, we recover from technology gremlins to talk about Craig Venter and the synthetic genome, about open data for malaria, about the UC library system taking on NPG and about being a programmer in academia Shownotes Craig … Continue reading Episode 34: Technology gremlins →

This was our first time recording three weeks in a row and we are thrilled to be back on this horse.  Of course, it took another 2+ weeks to publish the podcast (Deepak takes all blame) The recently concluded Sage Congress seems to have been quite an event. Everyone who attended said it would take … Continue reading Episode 33: Sage, Snakes and Pharma Tweets →

In episode 32, we talk about careers in academia and industry; spend a lot of time talking about open access journals, including Nature Communications; comment on data access and don’t completely agree on peer review. Production notes: Still not happy with the production quality.  Need to dig into what’s happening.  Might need to reduce recording … Continue reading Episode 32: Careers, open access publishing and peer review →

We start of with our new unilateral intro and a discussion of all things new; jobs, podcast mics, conferences and talks. In our science section we discus the recent storm in a teacup over the BRCA patents from Myriad being overturned by a federal court judge in New York. The YAGS acronym was coined by … Continue reading Episode 31: Genes, patents and open science →

Welcome to the first episode of 2010, and hopefully back to being somewhat regular. In this episode we talk about what we’ve been up to and some exciting career changes. We talk about trends in next-generation sequencing, about the latest research on Thalidomide and about geeks and labels. We talk about new sites to ask … Continue reading Episode 30: There and back again →

After an almost two month hiatus prompted partly by a crashing unsaved Audacity session and a lost hard disk, we get back to podcasting with a new format.  This format we hope will add some biology back into our mix while we retain most of our usual geekery . Beginning with episode 29 we will … Continue reading Back with a new format : episode 29 →

Atom starts off by filing his Hadoop world report and then we launch into a discussion of Django, Tornado and how functional programming is probably the messiah that will lead us as we transition to the realtime web. Finally we talk about what all of this means for life science developers. [Recorded on October 4th 2009] … Continue reading Episode 28: c2c-programming? – Hadoop , Django , Scala, Tornado : A programming heavy session →

We emerge from an hiatus with a programming heavy chat: Deepak and Hari start off discussing Haris recent programming experiences as he wrote an app to create protein crystallization grids. Are we there yet?- We discus Rich Hickeys talk at the recently concluded JVM language summit  and slide further into other things code and coding. … Continue reading Episode 27 : After a Hiatus →

Deepak and Hari talk about an actual use of Google Knol, discuss surveys and somehow end up talking about YAML Show Notes Jekyll PLoS works with Google and NCBI to launch PLoS Currents: Influenza The Knol NCBI Rapid Research Notes Google blog post An inside/outside view of US science (sub required … sorry) How XML … Continue reading Episode 26: Google, PLoS and NCBI get into bed together →

We celebrate our 25th episode by talking about our favorite podcasts (and I did get This Week in Science mixed up with Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour), Facebook acquiring Friendfeed, the Push Button Web Show Notes Facebook acquires Friendfeed The Push Button Web Pubsubhubbub Google buys On2 Science and JoVE join hands For example Training new … Continue reading Episode 25: Quarter Century →

In Episode 24, Hari and Deepak talk about advances in publishing, incremental science, Show notes Cell Beta prototypes Martin Fenner on the Article of the Future PLoS makes a move Links of the week Hari: ReportLab Deepak: Pro Git Editors note: Due to recording issues some discussion at the end had to be edited out. … Continue reading Episode 24: Science is built on incrementalism →

In Episode 23, Hari and Deepak fend of car alarms, go into deep ratholes, and talk a lot about programming and data visualization Show notes The canonical model of software development Web-centric curriculum MIT Open Courseware Introduction to scripting in Ruby for biologists Indexing and searching NCBI genes with Apache Lucene Apache Jackrabbit Solr Mahout … Continue reading Episode 23: So why were you talking about iPhones? →

In episode 22 Hari and Deepak talk about various events in the bay area and podcasts of interest, about putting science in our lives, funding the science we do, and scratch their heads over crazy articles on the drugs of the future. Show notes Scifoo is here again Preceded by SciBarCamp – Palo Alto Stack … Continue reading Episode 22: Hey dad, how does this plane fly? →

We have missed recording c2cbio the last few weeks but we are happy to be finally interviewing Ricardo Vidal.  Apart from blogging on his My Biotech Life blog , Ricardo recently started as “community liason” at Mendeley. We talk about  Mendeley, the social aspects of sharing and tracking what we are reading and whats on … Continue reading Episode 21 : Interview with Ricardo Vidal , a triple time zone pajama party →

In a long overdue episode 20, Hari and Deepak talk about a lot of old topics.  Old since the podcast was recorded a while ago, but some of the discussion is still pertinent.  Hari blames writing papers and Deepak blames all the interest in cloud computing. Show notes Wolfram|Alpha Learning from StackOverflow Royal Society acquires … Continue reading Episode 20: Man, it’s been forever →

In Episode 19, Deepak and Hari talk about Synthetic Biology, Grand Challenge Winners and Protein Engineering. Show notes A synthetic biology company bites the dust iGEM closes doors to amateurs Howtoons BioBricks Foundation Drew Endy and Jim Thomas and the synthetic biology debate  Protein Power Reflect Ubiquity Active Research This Week in Virology Pierre does … Continue reading Episode 19: Karmic Chlamydial Koalas →

Trying to do the TWiT thing and find a funny headline.  Let’s see if this sustains.  In this, the longest episode of c2cbio yet, Hari and Deepak talk about crowdsourcing, JoVE, managing patient records and a bunch of other little things Show notes There are crowds, and then there are crowds John Wilbanks’ E-Tech talk … Continue reading Episode 18: I touched an electric organ →

In Episode 17, we have a very spirited discussion on the role of libraries in research, about Summer of Code and data-driven analytics Show notes Nescent has the list of the bioinformatics project proposals for the Google Summer of Code 2009 Donnie Berkholz Libraries of the Future debate on FriendFeed Libraries of the Future debate … Continue reading Episode 17: Libraries, swallows and pythons →