A blogger who normally focuses on “the interface of biology and information technology was intrigued by some of the conference presentations:

Over at the Money:Tech conference (O’Reilly does organize some of the coolest conferences), a couple of talks caught my eye, notably one by Michael Stonebraker on Streambase and another by Steve Skiena on using computer simulations and mathematical modeling to make bets (You can find the slides on the web site). After going through the slides, I wondered, is there anything there which would be useful for the life sciences.