Human Longevity Inc. and Calico: healthy lifespan extension is a win-win game and a competition against time

A snippet from the following interview: The Regeneration Generation: A Conversation With Bob Hariri, Vice-Chairman and Co-Founder of Human Longevity Inc.

Google invests into DNAnexus: aging-driven big data bioinformatics without the Hadoop Ecosystem?

First time DNAnexus made me think a little about what they can achieve was when they came up with an alternative search and browse interface for the complete Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database. They came to the ‘rescue’ as NCBI discontinued SRA in 2011 although later they’ve changed their mind, so SRA is still up and running there.…

Three links in Aging, Regenerative Medicine & Healthy Lifespan Extension: 17 December 2013

1. DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types by Steve Horvath: This is the type of relevant data mining study most bioinformaticians are dreaming of: you pull together a large body of publicly available datasets (CpG methylation) that are not too heterogeneous (Infinium type II assay on Illumina 27K or Illumina 450K array platform), derive robust…