By Steve
24 Apr 2015 @ 7:41am
For the last three years I have been given the chance to return to my Alma Mater, the University of Iowa College of Engineering, as a guest judge for the Huber E. Storer Start-up Award. As a judge, I have gotten to see a lot of great pitches by some motivated and passionate engineers who will surely have a place in shaping our future world.
By Terry
10 Apr 2015 @ 1:33pm
Here is a paper for guidelines for interpretation of sequence variants -- you need access to Genetics in Medicine journal:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Standards+and+guidelines+for+th...
By Steve
03 Apr 2015 @ 10:18am
This past weekend was the first Iowa City Hackathon, expertly pulled together by dev/iowa and the local tech community. I had the pleasure of quickly stopping in for a few hours on Saturday and I can say I felt the event was a great success and hope it turns into an annual occurrence.
By Terry
27 Mar 2015 @ 11:48am
A colleague pointed me to a site with some BAM and VCF analysis tools, real-time and over the web. It’s fun to use, and might make for some good instructional content.
http://iobio.io/applications.html
(Thanks Alex.)
-Terry Braun
By Terry
18 Mar 2015 @ 2:45pm
We have been interested in developing training tools for various diseases (inherited eye diseases, deafness, cancer, and others). Here is a nice site that provides "radiology tutorials." Nice example of using images, image annotation, and wiki-style background information.
The site is here:
http://radiologymasterclass.co.uk/tutorials/chest/chest_pathology/chest_...
By bn-admin
17 Mar 2015 @ 11:15am
So apparently Chrome maintains a list of "unsafe" ports (or maybe a list of safe ones). I did not know this... and got a minor headache from it.
I was trying to setup a new printer remotely on one of my workstations that currently is configured to allow access to CUPS only locally on port 631 (default setup). That's easy enough, I'll just use SSH's port forwarding to allow my connection to appear local to cups:
By Steve
27 Feb 2015 @ 3:31pm
There was a release of denyhosts that finally fixes this bug! (Maybe the RHEL EPEL maintenance crew read my blog post, haha). So as long as you patch through 2.6-6.el5 (or equivalent if you are running a newer version of CentOS/RHEL/etc) then you will not have this issue. Thanks EPEL team!
So, I hesitate to call this a vulnerability, but it definitely is a critical issue.
By Steve
25 Feb 2015 @ 4:35pm
Recently we have begun to create a few projects using Apache Cordova. It is a great system that has come a long way from the last time I looked into using it (when it was still "PhoneGap"). It allows you to create a cross-platform mobile app using HTML/CSS/JS, which is great for us as we have plenty of experience using web technologies. There are some limitations as to what native APIs are supported but overall there is a ton that you can do!
By Steve
14 Jan 2015 @ 10:04am
We have worked with the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) since the very beginning of Bio::Neos. In fact, as a group of 6 engineers with zero practical experience running a business, there was little chance we would still be around 10 years later without their continued support and mentorship. So when I was asked to fill a survey out for their blog, I didn't hesitate to help! Here is the article they put together:
By Steve
26 Dec 2014 @ 5:08pm
Here at Bio::Neos we believe in encouraging increased software development related education opportunities for K-12 school level children. Even though additional structured in-person programs are ideal because of the benefits of face-to-face communication in educational programs, there are a ton of free resources online that really make the barriers to learning how to code extremely low. This is important for many reasons, and we are not the only ones believe that to be true.