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Sharing your own genetic data and your (family) health information towards a public…

Sharing your own genetic data and your (family) health information towards a public…

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Sharing your own genetic data and your (family) health information towards a public open database for scientist to study. Sounds like a pretty awesome idea of generating a massive cohort to study by all kinds of research groups. Being able to freely mix and match data within this set should promote creative research that hopefully leads to new discoveries.

Read for more info also the Nature Genetics editorial your data are not a product http://goo.gl/zi0Bm

"The Consent to Research project seeks to create the world’s largest pool of openly available, user-contributed data about health and genomics. We’re achieving that goal by helping people become members of a unique group – a “cohort” who not only gather data about themselves and their health, but donate that data to the growing numbers of data-driven research scientists."

consent to research –
Standard legal and technical systems for common genomic research and public genomic research. Use the red arrows at the top of the panes to navigate.


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Someone knows how to order the layers from the colour group? As 1 group is much smaller…

Someone knows how to order the layers from the colour group? As 1 group is much smaller…

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Someone knows how to order the layers from the colour group? As 1 group is much smaller (but more important) I want to make sure that these dots are always on top of the much larger bulkier group.

ggplot2 order of layers when using aes(colour = group)
I have a (dense) dataset that consist out of 5 groups, so my data.frame looks something like x,y,group. I can plot this data and colour the points based on their group using: p= ggplot(dataset, aes(x,…

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Biology Circle (Profiles Only)

Biology Circle (Profiles Only)

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Biology Circle (Profiles Only)
Click on the following link to view the profiles in this circle: http://goo.gl/xuMxT.

If you have a science related degree, you are a science journalist, or you curate a science page, then add your profile/page to the database (http://goo.gl/vOJoN) and circle +Science on Google+: A Public Database.

View underlying database: http://goo.gl/Yz8KR.


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10 great articles by +New Scientist about human evolutionary questions.

10 great articles by +New Scientist about human evolutionary questions.

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10 great articles by +New Scientist about human evolutionary questions.

10 biggest puzzles of human evolution – New Scientist
We are the ape that stood on two feet, lost its fur and crossed the globe – but why? New Scientist explores these and other enduring riddles of our past


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Genome wide association study for personality where they studied the following QTLs:…

Genome wide association study for personality where they studied the following QTLs:…

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Genome wide association study for personality where they studied the following QTLs: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness.

+Mikhail Spivakov what are your alleles for rs1477268, rs2032794 and rs2576037? 😉

http://goo.gl/J999U

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Taking invisibility to the next level!

Taking invisibility to the next level!

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Taking invisibility to the next level!

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Physicists have already unveiled invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, seismic and even water waves. Now researchers report a cloak that can hide objects from static magnetic fields. This 'antimagnet' could have medical applications, but might also subvert airport security.

‘Antimagnet’ renders magnets invisible
Magnetic cloak could bring medical benefits — and security risks.

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About me

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.

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