Some time ago a friend told me about Google trends – a way to analyze google searches and where they take place. I thought it was rather gimmicky – but I was playing around with it today and realised it can potentially have some scientific value. Unfortunately a search term needs to generate enough traffic before it will generate results – so its no good for analyzing very specific terms – but here are a few things I found…
Kinase inhibitors – Boston, MA
Erectile Dysfunction – Deerfield Beach, Florida (a, ahem, older population?)
Microarrays - Stanford, CA
Antidepressants - St Albans, UK (Merck, GSK, Lilly have research centers around here..?)
Categories: Google · Statistics
I’ve been looking into what’s out there in terms of data visualization and clustering for a project that I am working on. This is an exercise I did about 4 years ago and I am amazed at how things have changed – below is a list of various tools I have found, the top 4 being my favorites (that fit the need for my project at least). Anyway since I have them compiled I thought I’d share them here. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts about any of these tools (Email)
This image is from Touchgraph:
Categories: Data Visualization · Search Engines · Searching
This is a very cool site. It allows you to search for a particular part of the brain and then homes in on the tissue you are interested in – the website compares it to Google earth for the brain. To get an idea of what it does type in a brain term (e.g. pineal or hypothalamus) and see the results. There is also a cool companion visual directory of all the mapped terms.
Categories: Images · brain
This is an interesting tool that shows the interations between genes and proteins with links to PubMed. It’s produced by a private company (Pubgene.com) in Norway.
Categories: Reference · Searching · cell signaling
