Title: the Biological Observation Matrix (biom) Format Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ome-ome

The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the ome-ome

BACKGROUND We present the Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM, pronounced "biome") format: a JSON-based file format for representing arbitrary observation by sample contingency tables with associated sample and observation metadata. As the number of categories of comparative omics data types (collectively, the "ome-ome") grows rapidly, a general format to represent and archive this data will fa...

Matrix ( BIOM ) format or : how I learned to stop worrying and love

1 Biofrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. 2 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. 3 Second Genome, San Bruno, CA, USA. 4 Department of Computer Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. 5 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA. 6 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA. 7 Howard Hughes Medical...

Zornian Functional Analysis or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Axiom of Choice

The future of human - computer interaction , or how I learned to stop worrying and love my intelligent room

interaction, or how I learned to stop worrying and love my intelligent room Michael H. Coen, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. Suppose 100 years ago someone suggested that every bedroom in the US would soon have a bell that anyone in the world could ring anytime, day or night. Would you have believed it? Nevertheless, the telephone caught on and has...

GPI anchoring of protein in yeast and mammalian cells or: How we learned to stop worrying and love glycophospholipids