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The automatic chemist

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From www.rsc.org - September 7, 2012 6:30 PM

Bartosz Grzybowski of Northwestern University in Illinois, US – who has already established himself as one of our most inventive chemists – has unveiled a ‘chemo-informatic’ scheme, Chematica, that can stake a reasonable claim to being paradigm-changing. Grzybowski and his colleagues have spent years assembling the transformations that link chemical species into a vast network that codifies and organises the known pathways through chemical space. The nodes of the network – molecules, elements and chemical reactions – are linked together by connecting reactants to products via the nexus of a known reaction. The full network contains around 7 million compound nodes and about the same number of reaction nodes. Grzybowski calls it a ‘collective chemical brain’.

 

The automatic chemist
Philip Ball

Chemistry World 22 August 2012

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/08/automatic-chemist


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New Modeling Approach Transforms Imaging Technologies

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From www.scientificcomputing.com - February 7, 2:17 PM
Researchers are improving the performance of technologies ranging from medical CT scanners to digital cameras using a system of models to extract specific information from huge collections of data and then reconstructing images like a jigsaw puzzle...
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Traditionally, imaging sensors and software are designed to detect and measure a particular property. The new approach does the inverse, collecting huge quantities of data and later culling specific information from this pool of information using specialized models and algorithms. The approach aims to capture as many measurements we possible with given sensors and then use models to extract and reconstruct features.  The new approach is called model-based iterative reconstruction, or MBIR and echoes how humans solve problems by trial and error, assessing probability and discarding extraneous data and is applicable to both scientific and consumer data processing problems such as image recognition. Great article and very interesting tech. Click on image or title to learn more.

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@ Ars Electronica: The Big Picture

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From visualizing.org - September 17, 2012 9:55 AM

Leading on from the piece posted on visualizing.org. These are the winners of the Seed media and Ars Electronica: The Big Picture competition for data visualisation and info communication. Some great pieces of design. Worth reading if you are looking for inspiration (will have to add a new inspiration tag me thinks). Click on the image or the title to learn more.

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Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good

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From www10.giscafe.com - May 26, 2012 4:28 AM

Philanthropy in US is making growing use of the latest data visualization tools to analyze and share information. To hear about tools that your organization could utilize, watch this webinar on Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good.


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Powering the Cell: Mitochondria

From www.youtube.com (via @raskjaerbo) - January 5, 6:17 AM
Together Harvard University and XVIVO developed this 3D animation journey for Harvard's undergraduate Molecular and Cellular Biology students about the micro... (Call me a g33z0r, but this is friggin' beautiful!
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As a  huge fan of the XVIVO scientific animation team - this was a delight. My only wish was that they would do two versions - one with labels for key parts and processes. However its wonderful seeing subcellular processes visualized like this to help explain how complex these processes are and what is occuring inside cellular organelles. Worth watching. 

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Data Visualizations, Challenges, Community

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From visualizing.org - September 17, 2012 9:52 AM

We use a lot of visualisation tools as part of our workflows - ranging from gephi which is interegrated into our analytics tools and workflow engine, d3.js (and a bunch of others) in our web reporting frameworks thoguht to realtime interactive 3D. As a result sites like Visualizing.org a community of creative people making sense of complex issues through data and design are great sources of information, knowledge and inspiration. If you are interested in information presentation and data visualization -its a site worth visting regularly. Click on the image ot title to learn more...

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