Around the web, week of March 7, 2008

• Bio::Blogs #19, the engineering edition!
• BuzzClouds in science, a very cool vizualization of scientific buzzwords and trending. (service)
• Backward compatibility ≠ Forward Scalability, Intel places some caveats on the free-lunch, legacy software won’t take advantage of future architectures unless they’re redesigned. This shouldn’t be a surprise but it hasn’t always been the case. The trend of adding more cores and changing memory architectures means that some applications may get left in the dust unless they’re optimized for these new paradigms.
• DSL specification and behavior, a great example of building a DSL in Groovy for bioinformatics.
• BioRuby on Rails, some good examples of how to fetch EBI records on the web using ActiveRecord for persistance.
• Ruby-Processing, a bridge to use the Processing API in the Ruby language.

Science blogs are emerging everywhere. The-Scientist did an article about biomed at the PSC in the August issue. They’re now running a ‘Top Science Blogs’ poll which I found through Deepak’s post. Here’s my top 5 list according to my Google Reader trends view

by number of items read:

1. business|bytes|genes|molecules
2. What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate
3. Depth-First
4. chem-bla-ics
5. Propeller Twist

It’s not fair to stop at 5, since there’s so many other great science blogs that I read frequently..

• Jon Udell
• Inforbiomatica
• Saaien Tist
• Trapped in the USA
• Perfect Storm