Daily Data Dump - Thursday

Genetic signatures for extreme old age accurately predict odds of living past 100. I wonder how much we'll find out looking at samples at extreme values of a particular distribution of a phenotype. Right now we're focusing on lots of SNPs in a more generic sample, such as the HGDP or HapMap. Or, we're looking for associations in samples which have particular illnesses. In the near future whole genome sequencing will be applied to the very tall, very smart, and very athletic. China Is Getting Its Google Eviction Notice Ready. Google changed things in 1998 in a qualitative sense. Search pre-Google was not really search as we understand it today. But even conceding that Google is better than Bing and Baidu, it's not nearly as much better in 2010 as it was in 1998 in relation to the older generation of search engines such as Excite. That's a long way ...