Word: rosetta
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...about 70 genes, they produced a DNA profile that correlated closely with the women's actual outcomes. "There's not much that stands in the way of this test being used clinically," says Stephen Friend, one of the paper's authors and a co-founder of the biotech firm Rosetta Inpharmatics. Clinical trials could begin, he believes, within the year...
...bioinformatics isn't just about genes and proteins anymore. "It's now used to describe how to manage and integrate all information from the drug-discovery process through clinical trials," says Pradip Banerjee, an analyst at consultancy Accenture. That's why drug giant Merck bought Kirkland, Wash.-based Rosetta Inpharmatics, a leader in the field, for $620 million last May. The much touted convergence of biotechnology and computing, it seems, has revolutionized a host of other fields...
...think I'm joking? Well, if one company's vision of the future of online reading is to be believed, folks who eyeball each line with a snail-like finger had better have deep pockets. On Monday Rosetta Books, a major player in the nascent e-book market, announced a "$1 for 10 hours of reading" deal. You pay a buck, download the book, then 10 hours later the text gets all scrambled up. Haven't finished? Tough luck; you have to pay again to unlock it. Right now this is just a trial deal attached to one tome - Agatha...
...Adobe changed its mind on the Sklyarov issue in the face of outrage from some very organized programmers, and was soon calling for his release. But the fact that you'll also find Adobe's name attached to the Rosetta Books time-limit deal shows that the San Jose-based company has a very bad sense of timing - either that, or it's intentionally courting controversy...
...made it possible for me to examine each contribution in depth - fortunately, it's an unusually rich film in every category. Understanding the pieces of "Kong," what made each component work, helped me later with "Citizen Kane" and "Psycho" and hundreds of other movies. It was my Rosetta Stone...