Category Archives: Bioinformatics

Creationists, “Biological Information”, and Cyber-Vitalism

Posted on March 29, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

In response to us foul-mouthed evolutionists, Casey Luskin asks, “Yet for all their numbers and name-calling, not a single one has answered Egnor’s question: How does [sic] Darwinian mechanisms produce new biological information?” I’ve never liked the whole “biological information” concept.
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Posted in Bioinformatics, Creationism, Evolution, Fucking Morons, Microbiology, The War on Science | 9 Comments

Impact Factors and eigenFACTOR.org

Posted on March 21, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

In scientific publishing, one of the important things is what is known as the “impact factor” which is the the average number of citations a journal receives over a 2 year period. The impact factor is often used by librarians and researchers to determine which journals to purchase and where to publish. There are some problems with the impact factor, however.
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Posted in Bioinformatics, Publishing | 6 Comments

I Have a Simple Question

Posted on January 7, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

How does the entire NIH go offline?
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Posted in Bioinformatics, NIH | 8 Comments

VRSA Hospital Insurance

Posted on December 15, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

I was recently at a conference where one speaker (Dr. Thomas O’Brien) suggested ‘VRSA hospital insurance’ to prevent the spread of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreaks (‘VRSA’). Before I get into the plan, let’s talk about VRSA.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology, MRSA, Public Health | 1 Comment

E. coli O157:H7 and the Importance of Surveillance

Posted on September 25, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Do you want to know how to stop, or at least, lessen the next E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak? Improve our surveillance and public health infrastructure.
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