Biologists mis-cite

To cite or not to cite.

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Building products for Google-scale presents some unique challenges in the software development and operational spheres. Through exploring techniques relating to design, development, configuration, deployment and monitoring the talk will describe how Google delivers high availability products with low latency to millions of customers worldwide. Profile. Ollie Cook is a site reliability manager a...

To Cite or Not to Cite: A Note of Annoyance

Sociologists often talk about the “reward” system in science and scholarship. Publication of papers, especially in prestigious journals, adds to an author’s credits. When an author’s work contributes to your own work he is entitled to some “reward” for adding to the world’s knowledge. These rewards are usually given in the form of reference citations. This is, of course, an over-simplification,...

Systems Biology for Biologists

Do you avoid papers thick with mathematical details and unfamiliar statistical analyses? If so, this article is for you! Systems biology, at its core, is not a set of computational and mathematical techniques; these are merely tools, incredibly useful, but secondary. The heart of systems biology is simple: explaining how a system works requires an integrated outlook. For any phenotype—molecular...

Society of Systematic Biologists

-A well-known approach to inferring phylogenies involves finding a phylogeny with the largest number of characters that are perfectly compatible with it. Variations of this problem depend on whether characters are: cladistic (rooted) or qualitative (unrooted); binary (two states) or unconstrained (more than one state). The computational cost of known algorithms that guarantee solutions to these...