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Making machine learning trustworthy | Science
August 29, 2021Expanding Access to Large-Scale Genomic Data While Promoting Privacy: A Game Theoretic Approach: The American Journal of Human Genetics
August 29, 2021https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(16)30526-2
Expanding Access to Large-Scale Genomic Data While Promoting Privacy: A Game Theoretic Approach
Zhiyu Wan
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Weiyi Xia
Ellen Wright Clayton
Murat Kantarcioglu
Bradley Malin
Published:January 05, 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.12.002
Why Animals Don’t Get Lost | The New Yorker
August 29, 2021Why Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers May Make Things Worse – The New York Times
August 29, 2021QT:{{”
To understand why screens often have little effect on protecting people from aerosol particles, it helps to think about exhaled breath like a plume of cigarette smoke, Dr. Marr said.
“One way to think about plastic barriers is that they are good for blocking things like spitballs but ineffective for things like cigarette smoke,” Dr. Marr said. “The smoke simply drifts around them, so they will give the person on the other side a little more time before being exposed to the smoke. Meanwhile, people on the same side with the smoker will be exposed to more smoke, since the barriers trap it on that side until it has a chance to mix throughout the space.” “}}
Another useful fact connected to this thread is that secondhand cigarette smoke is a good indicator of aerosol behavior
https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/Opinion-What-secondhand-smoke-tells-us-about-the-15794467.php viz: https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1430324404752318464
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/well/live/coronavirus-restaurants-classrooms-salons.html
fermented foods
August 28, 2021How Fermented Foods May Alter Your Microbiome and Improve Your Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/well/eat/yogurt-kimchi-kombucha-microbiome.html
Foods like yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha increased the diversity of gut microbes and led to lower levels of inflammation.
ARTICLE| VOLUME 184, ISSUE 16, P4137-4153.E14, AUGUST 05, 2021
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00754-6
Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status
Hannah C. Wastyk 7
Gabriela K. Fragiadakis 7
Dalia Perelman
Dylan Dahan
Bryan D. Merrill
Feiqiao B. Yu
Madeline Topf
Carlos G. Gonzalez
William Van Treuren
Shuo Han
Jennifer L. Robinson
Joshua E. Elias
Erica D. Sonnenburg
Christopher D. Gardner
Justin L. Sonnenburg 8
Published:July 12, 2021
Michael Levitt on Twitter: “Need advice on good Python books & courses. Learned FORTRAN from the IBM FORTRAN II manual in 1967; learned C from Kernighan & Ritchie in 1980; learned Perl from my postdocs @MarkGerstein & St even Brenner in 1995; learned Excel from @john_walkenbach in 2010. Thanks🙏” / Twitter
August 27, 2021https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1431106728230326276
This is a great educational thread! I’ll bookmark it & keep in mind some of the suggestions for my bioinformatics class, which has now moved completely to python.
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In particular, I’d 2nd the recommendation for this tutorial
(http://docs.python.org/tutorial), https://tutorialspoint.com/python (from @RolandDunbrack) & the O’Reilly books (from @vajkaat & @Ceaza10).
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One additional thing: if you like Perl & Excel, you’ll love GAS (Google apps script, https://developers.google.com/apps-script), which provides a way to program with standard Javascript on top of Google sheets.
Apple AirTags only partly stop stalking – The Washington Post
August 20, 2021The unvaccinated are at risk as evolution accelerates the covid-19 pandemic | The Economist
August 14, 2021QT:{{”
In the original Wuhan genome the 501st position in the spike chain is occupied by an amino acid called asparagine. ….Mutations which cause just that substitution, known as n501y (or sometimes “Nelly”) subsequently turned up in the Alpha, Beta and Gamma variants. Another change they spotted, now called e484k (or “Eek”), was found in both Beta and Gamma.
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The rbd is not the only part of the spike protein where mutations matter. In a preprint published on June 22nd Ravindra Gupta, a molecular virologist at Cambridge University, and his colleagues put forward an argument as to why Delta is both more infectious and better at evading immunity than other variants. It is based on a substitution at site 681, which is at the point where, after the rbd meets ace2, the protein is cleft in two.
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Dr Gupta says p681r, helped by two shape-modifying mutations elsewhere, makes it easier for the protein to be cut up and thus get into cells. Its presence also means that, once a cell starts producing particles, their spike proteins can get on to the cell’s surface pre-cut.
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