Re: Adventurous geneticist or bioinformaticist wanted...

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 11:21:25 MDT


Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> One of the several avenues I'm exploring in trying to find a way to fund
> Webmind AI research on an ongoing basis is *bioinformatics*
>
> I believe that the Webmind AI Engine can provide an unprecedentedly
> powerful way of processing gene and protein expression data as produced by

What makes you think built-in artifishl intelligence for pattern
matching is noticeably better than monkey intelligence doing an
interactive session with a frontend to serious (it depends on
the problem set, usually a fat PC would do plenty, but of
course a Beowulf can be useful, too) crunch?

Btw, some random plug here for interested parties:
http://bioperl.org ; http://biopython.org

Oh yes, and if you have no clue whatsoever, but would like
to get some, run, don't walk to:

        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/

> experiments with microarrays (DNA chips, spotted microarrays, etc.),
> using more general functional information about genomes and proteomes as
> background...

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