{"id":850,"date":"2004-10-06T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/2004\/10\/bioinformatics-info-design\/"},"modified":"2004-10-06T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T21:04:00","slug":"bioinformatics-info-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/2004\/10\/06\/bioinformatics-info-design\/","title":{"rendered":"bioinformatics info-design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a     href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/infostructure\/0,1377,65191,00.html\">Wired     News piece<\/a> on <a     href=\"http:\/\/www.baselineresearch.net\/PI\/\">Marshall Beddoe&#8217;s work<\/a> with bioinformatic algorithms to crack protocol reverse-engineering has had some good results, in the sense that it&#8217;s shedding a bit more light on possible crossovers between bioinf and Net applications. (I&#8217;ve written about this sort of genetic cyborg weird-ass mutie crossrbreeding before, for <a     href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99996292\">New     Scientist<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In the discussion I had with Marshall about his next steps, he commented that a lot of his future work had less to do with number-crunching, and more to do with visualisation. One bioinfodesign innovation that got pointed out to him as a result of the article was <a     href=\"http:\/\/www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov\/~toms\/glossary.html#sequence_logo\">sequence     logos<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/images\/entries\/lexa-logo.gif\" alt=\"an example sequence logo\" class=\"picture\" title=\"from http:\/\/www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov\/~toms\/icons\/lexa-logo.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sequence logos are graphics used in bioinformatics to visually highlight commonalities between multiple sequences. The rows shows how often letters in a gene sequence occur at each position (the GATCs &#8211; the taller the letter, the more often the nucleotide appears) together with a measure of how much commonality is preserved over all the sequences (the curve). <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re trying to spot patterns in long data sequences, some adaptation of this might be useful to you too. I&#8217;m really interested in seeing what Marshall comes up with next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wired News piece on Marshall Beddoe&#8217;s work with bioinformatic algorithms to crack protocol reverse-engineering has had some good results, in the sense that it&#8217;s shedding a bit more light on possible crossovers between bioinf and Net applications. (I&#8217;ve written about this sort of genetic cyborg weird-ass mutie crossrbreeding before, for New Scientist). In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}