Dr. Will Gilbert likes to carry the human genome around on his iPod. Its the easiest way, he says, to transfer the genome 3 billion chemical letters that make up a persons genetic code, or DNA to the computers of other researchers at the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
Gilbert had set up a research project involving the human genome on his Power Mac, using the Apple/Genentech version of BLAST. A breakthrough implementation of the popular bioinformatics tool from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), A/G BLAST conducts high-speed DNA searches in biomedical research and drug discovery. But, says Gilbert, I wanted to run the project down the hall on another Mac. Rather than copy it across the network, Id pull out my iPod. Plug it in, drag, drop, zip, boom, bang and walk it down the hall.
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Gilbert had set up a research project involving the human genome on his Power Mac, using the Apple/Genentech version of BLAST. A breakthrough implementation of the popular bioinformatics tool from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), A/G BLAST conducts high-speed DNA searches in biomedical research and drug discovery. But, says Gilbert, I wanted to run the project down the hall on another Mac. Rather than copy it across the network, Id pull out my iPod. Plug it in, drag, drop, zip, boom, bang and walk it down the hall.
Read the whole story @ http://www.apple.com/pro/gilbert/
