Bioinformatics or B101nformatics

After some trouble I must say that in public: If you have a big task which takes many time and decide to parallelize. DO NOT PARALLELIZE EVERYHING! Otherwise you will have a parallel task inside another parallel task! Just a friendly reminder :D

I am renaming the blog, as I talk very little about biotech and a lot more of bioinformatics :D You can check it yourself!

One of my projects for the master was to investigate using data of the TCGA project. We (my teammates and me) decided to use data of the thyroid. We aimed to discover the reasons why women suffer more thyroid carcinoma than men. Distribution of samples of the TCGA dataset from the thyroid, separated by sex I don't want to repeat all the information on the report we did, you can find the work we did, you can find everything here .  The summary of the study is: Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer (Agrawal et al. 2014). It is more prevalent in women than men and its common diagnosis occurs between 25 and 65 years old (The Cancer Genome Atlas Accessed: 2016-06-1). The aim of our project is to study differentially expressed genes between tumor and normal samples taking into account whether there could be a gender effect on the tumorgenesis of PTC. Using data from the The Cancer Genome Atlas (Accessed: 2016-06-1) we have performed a diffe...

I must admit I was shocked when I heard it: If there is a possibility that doing this we can cure something is enough for me to do it. That was what a friend said talking about modifying human germinal lines. A week later, discussing about transhumanism another friend told me that "Science will solve all problems". This two sentences were said some months ago but I still have them fixed and would like to write about them. First of all I follow a principle: Just because we can do something we have not to do it.  As an example no one  would give a friend with pine nuts if he/she is allergic to them. We don't do it because it is not good for him/her. The reasons why we do something are as important as why we don't do something. In this case (modifying human germinal lines) we have the possibility to gain the piece of knowledge to cure some big deseases (cancers, senescence, autoinmmune diseases...) but at the cost of losing the common biological definition of o...

Escric aquesta entrada com a recopilatori de la informació sobre les beques un cop es compleixen requisits per inscriure's en un programa de doctorat. Els requisits per inscriure's en un programa de doctorat actualment amb els nous crèdits ECTS són: Disposar del títol de una carrera amb un mínim de 240 crèdits ECTS. Haver aprovat 60 crèdits ECTS d'un màster (No implica haver-lo acabat, important en el cas dels màsters de dos anys) Podem classificar les beques per tipus de entitat que les otorga: Ministeri Conselleria Universitats Entitats financeres Fundacions Instituts Altres O a qui s'atorguen: Projecte de recerca Group de recerca Persona física Institució Pel que sembla la única manera de saber quines són les opcions disponibles és mirar totes les pàgines que puguin tenir informació al respecte. Sí que hi ha una associació ( Federación de Jóvenes investigadores/Precarios ) que porta en un forum informació al respecte però no hi ha cap...