Large scale physiological readjustment during growth enables rapid, comprehensive and inexpensive systems analysis (BMC Sys Biol).

Robert Fortner presents hard data about life expectancy, medical progress, and more create a stark contrast to the claims of eternal life through the singularity. (Video)

Thanks to all who participated in the third annual Gaggle Workshop (2009). It was the most successful workshop so far. We had two days of presentations and discussion and welcomed several new collaborators to the project.

Please visit the workshop wiki page where you will be able to see presentations from the workshop and other information.

The Ontological Discovery Environment allows users to integrate phenotype centered gene sets across species, tissue and experimental platform. Sets can be stored, shared and compared privately, among user defined groups of investigators, and across all users.

The ODE is compatible with Gaggle, through the Firegoose extension to the Firefox web browser.

The ODE comes from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and is a project of the NIAAA Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (U01AA13499, U24AA13513).

Gaggle software was featured in The Scientist‘s March 2009 issue in an article title All Systems Go.

Last December, in the face of one of the worst winter storms in decades, the Institute for Systems Biology declared a snow day. Most researchers stayed home, and a calm stillness transcended the Institute’s three-story home overlooking Seattle’s snow-crested Lake Union.

Founded in 2000 by well-known scientists who defected from their academic posts at the nearby University of Washington, the Institute for Systems Biology laid the groundwork for academic and for-profit organizations alike to buy into the nascent concept of large-scale biology.

Over at the Institute for Systems Biology, which hosts several visualization tools on its website, Nitin Baliga and his group recently added a tool to their database and software integration framework Gaggle.

Turn on the radio, and a marvelous thing happens. Intricately wired circuits come to life and, as if by magic, the speakers send out music. Of course, you protest, it’s not magic, as a quick look inside can show.