After a week long hiatus prompted by failing hotel internet connections and sleep deprivation following a two-day synchrotron run , we return with an episode filled with discussion ranging from specialized hardware solutions for millisecond scale molecular dynamics simulations to collaborative personal genomics and  astronomical galaxy calling

Here are the shownotes:

First cut (video) of Deepaks talk on big data and open science at  Virginia Tech ( abstract)

D.E Shaw research group and map-reduce for molecular dynamics

NCI Cancer Molecular Analysis Portal and the BigHealth Consortium

Galaxy zoo : a collaborative galazy annotation project has its first publications

Whats new in Mathematica 6 (and 7)