What’s on the web? (24 July 2007) July 24, 2007

I start a new series (the example was Hsien’s Eye on DNA links) now called What’s on the web?, because I find too many sites, links, posts/articles and I must share these with you time by time.

• Bligter.com: Don´t you know what to blog about? Are you unable to keep your blog up to date? Want to Increase your blog audience and inbound links?

• Kosmix.com: A great medical search engine. Thier secret sauce as they describe it is the categorization engine that crawls billions of Web pages in a unique manner to create algo-generated home pages.

• Constructive Medicine: a new blog about web 2.0 and medicine.

• iPhone Medicine Blog

• ResearchSEA Medicine:it brings research news and top experts direct from universities, think tanks, journals and specialist organisations to journalists around the world.

• Webmed: Online educational videos

• brij.in: A customized Life Science Search Engine.

• And Microsoft Wants You (via Medgadget):

Personalized Medicine: Improving Genome-Wide Association Studies

Goal: Genome-Wide Association Studies is an area that would greatly benefit from having computing improvements for researchers. Focus areas for improvement include:

• Improvement of HapMap (tools for data collection, etc.)
• Standardization of genetic data collection, semantics and DB schema
• Improvement of Algorithms (particularly for in multi-allele disorders) accuracy, performance (e.g., parallelization, HPC)
• Genomic Data Visualization