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Biology underlies all the life sciences, but historically it has been more of a descriptive than quantitative science. Today, however, computational approaches dramatically increase the potential to learn and understand the complex relationships within and between the subsets of biology (biological response, biodiversity, genetics, medicine, etc.).
Computational Biology represents the marriage of Information Technology (IT) and biology, and spans many disciplines, such as bioinformatics (both genomics and post-genomics), molecular modeling, bioengineering, biosimulation, clinical informatics, medical imaging, and many others. While genomics research brought a face to Computational Biology, it also brought with it a set of new and more difficult challenges such as:
- A collision of paradigms giving rise to data overload,
- Data interoperability problems, and
- The need for widely distributed data and computing resources to solve certain problems.
Continue to read 'Computational Biology: the Marriage of IT and Biology' , which bring a new face for the computational biology in relation to the Sun technologies. I think that it will give you a practical review about computational biology.
Sun also has Communities of Interest for Computational Biology, which provide a open platform for researchers, scientists, and partners. The most valuable part in this platform, I think, is Partnerships Program which is composed of three parts: Centres of Excellence, External Research Office and Asia Pacific Science and Technology Centre. It gives out large loads of information, developments, trends, and resources of computational biology with high-advanced Sun technologies.
Recently Google announced the arrival of 1G GMail email system. Because it is still under the stage of beta testing, the registration of accounts are not available to everyone. The persons who want to get the account must get the invitation from the GMail user. Many people include me tried to look for the invitation sources and expected to get one account. My purpose is to attend the testing phrase of Google, providing useful and practical feedbacks to Google about their new email system as I was attracted deeply by the technologies of Google. Eventually I got two accounts thanks to friends Brennan Stehling and Taylor Simpson.
Next, there is a problem put on the table directly and clearly after getting the GMail account. That is, how to import the other email accounts, such as Thunderbird, Mozilla, Hotmail, Outlook and so on, into the GMail email box. Google's GMail did not provide such tools to implement this function. I 'google' GMail on the Web and found this solution for this problem, which solved most of my required problems! Based on the instructions published on that site, Microsoft Outlook PST file is still under development. I believe it will be available later time!
Currently I have 6 invitations for the GMail account. If interested, you can email me and of course I hope you can give me satisfactory reasons!
