All posts; Tags Include "OBO"
- August 25, 2010
- 05:30 AM
- 54 views
Robots and neuroscience
by Wellcome Trust in Wellcome Trust Blog
Many people expect that humans and robots will interact more frequently in the near future. For this reason, it is extremely important that robots are capable of smooth and natural movements so that they do not make people feel uncomfortable. Dr Thierry Chaminade from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging is part of an international [...]... Read more »
Chaminade, T., Zecca, M., Blakemore, S., Takanishi, A., Frith, C., Micera, S., Dario, P., Rizzolatti, G., Gallese, V., & Umiltà , M. (2010) Brain Response to a Humanoid Robot in Areas Implicated in the Perception of Human Emotional Gestures. PLoS ONE, 5(7). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011577
- July 28, 2010
- 09:36 AM
- 82 views
Past lives caught in the dust of trees
I’m currently working at the Annals of Botany to help out with their social media side. There’s a bit more to it than subtly dropping links to their site, like this one. At the moment I’m struggling with the Facebook integration, but there’s a fun side too. I wouldn’t have browsed AoB if I’d not... Read more »
Mercader, J., Bennett, T., Esselmont, C., Simpson, S., & Walde, D. (2009) Phytoliths in woody plants from the Miombo woodlands of Mozambique. Annals of Botany, 104(1), 91-113. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp097
- February 20, 2010
- 02:10 PM
- 455 views
presenting the amazing evolving automatons
by Greg Fish in weird things
A while back I made a post about the use of robots to simulate evolutionary behaviors by giving them a kind of free reign and copying the programming of the machines most successful in their tasks into the rest of the test group to emulate natural selection. Now, the lead author of that study, Dario [...]... Read more »
Floreano, D., & Keller, L. (2010) Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection. PLoS Biology, 8(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292
- February 12, 2010
- 10:12 AM
- 429 views
The 3rd OBO Foundry Workshop 2010, Cambridge, UK
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) [1] are a set of reference ontologies for describing all kinds of biomedical data shared in a centralised OBO Foundry. Every year, users and developers of these ontologies gather from around the globe for a workshop at the EBI near Cambridge, UK. Following on from the first workshop two years [...]... Read more »
Smith, B., Ashburner, M., Rosse, C., Bard, J., Bug, W., Ceusters, W., Goldberg, L., Eilbeck, K., Ireland, A., Mungall, C.... (2007) The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. Nature Biotechnology, 25(11), 1251-1255. DOI: 10.1038/nbt1346
- February 5, 2010
- 06:53 AM
- 478 views
Classic paper: Montagues and Capulets in Science
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
In preparation for a joint seminar I’ll be doing with Midori Harris here at the EBI, here’s a classic paper [1,2] on the social problems of building biomedical ontologies. This paper is worth reading (or re-reading) because it makes lots of relevant points about the use and abuse of research and how people misunderstand each [...]... Read more »
Goble, C., & Wroe, C. (2004) The Montagues and the Capulets. Comparative and Functional Genomics, 5(8), 623-632. DOI: 10.1002/cfg.442
- January 21, 2010
- 05:05 AM
- 413 views
Blogging a Book about Bio-Ontologies
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
If you wanted to write a guide to Biomedical and Biological Ontologies [1], especially the what, why, when, how, where and who, there are at least three choices for publishing your work:
Journal publishing in your favourite scientific journal.
Book publishing with your favourite academic or technical publisher.
Self publishing on a web blog with your favourite blogging [...]... Read more »
Yu, A. (2006) Methods in biomedical ontology. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 39(3), 252-266. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.11.006
- May 8, 2009
- 09:12 PM
- 863 views
Pandora's Box
by Kristopher Hite in Tom Paine's Ghost
DNA Origami goes 3DImagine sitting down at your computer, typing out a message, and then having that message translated into a tiny self-assembling machine. In essence, this is what a group of Danish German and American researchers have done. Using short bits of DNA to link up distant regions throughout a very long single strand of DNA these folks were able to build six square walls and have them assemble, on their own, to form a sealed box. What's more, they were able to affix several molecul........ Read more »
Andersen, E., Dong, M., Nielsen, M., Jahn, K., Subramani, R., Mamdouh, W., Golas, M., Sander, B., Stark, H., Oliveira, C.... (2009) Self-assembly of a nanoscale DNA box with a controllable lid. Nature, 459(7243), 73-76. DOI: 10.1038/nature07971
- September 3, 2008
- 12:41 PM
- 1,062 views
In for a choppy ride: Teaching a helicopter to fly
by Jacob Aron in Just A Theory
I often find myself frustrated with the stupidity of computers. If I’m performing a simple but repetitive task such as resizing pictures or uploading files, I begin to wonder why the computer can’t do it for me. All you have to do is click there, then drag that, then check this - surely the computer [...]... Read more »
Adam Coates, Pieter Abbeel, & Andrew Y. Ng. (2008) Learning for Control from Multiple Demonstrations. ICML. DOI: http://heli.stanford.edu/papers/coatesabbeelng_icml2008.pdf
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