Marc's presentation now on Google Tech Talks

Marc A. Marti Renom gave a talk at Google on April 7 regarding his open source research within Tropical Disease Initiative and The Synaptic Leap. It's a great introduction describing TDI's goals to provide open source bioinformatic tools to assist with the drug discovery process for tropical diseases. He gives an overview of projects past and future including the Gene Cards and Gene Basket projects that we plan to collaborate together on to deploy on The Synaptic Leap.

Open Source Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases.  

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Great resource

Marc,

This is a great educational resource for distributing talks, and an excellent way of spreading the message. I hope there's a commitment from Google to keep them available. The rest of us should also consider this.

Mat

 

Indeed...

Hi Mat,

I actually gave that talk at Google. They invited me after I did the same seminar at Stanford that some of the guys working at Google attended. The video will fully available. I think that we could also use google database to upload our own recorded talks. That would be nice...

Best,
Marc

recorded talks uploaded to google

We can absolutely upload talks to Google and then link to them here. Advantages in doing this:

  • Videos are disk space pigs and we won't clog up TSL storage. Then again, we have a lot of room...
  • Presumably they will be indexed for better discovery.

Down the road, I have visions of being able to create podcasts for our content. We could allow people to subscribe to us as a channel and download our content onto their video iPod. TSL does warrant a "channel" / category of content from which to subscribe - once we get more science and content.  But even if we do this, I think it may be worthwhile to also load onto Google. I think they're video capabilities are only just beginning.