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#ISBSymp Favorite quotes and highlights

Here are a number of our favorite quotes and highlights from today's Institute for Systems Biology International Symposium on Systems Biology & the Microbiome

@vangos
Attending #ISBsymp in @ISBUSA . Extremely promising schedule today: systemsbiology.org/symposium/sche…
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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Check out the link above for the full schedule.

Lee Hood Kicked off the session:
@Ievuciitis
RT @b0yle: Holy trinity of systems biology is biology, computational science and technology. - @ISBLeeHood at #isbsymp
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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RT @ISBUSA: And we're a go! #ISBsymp pic.twitter.com/UUHhXIZX
so @synobu
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Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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@ldtimmerman
Lee Hood: one of big problems in systems bio is separating signal from the noise in the data #ISBsymp
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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@ConferenceBites
RT @ievuciitis: RT @b0yle: Holy trinity of systems biology is biology, computational science and technology. - @ISBLeeHood at #isbsymp
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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@ISBUSA
RT @b0yle: Human microbiome study ranks among the most important projects for human health - slide from @JCVenter at #ISBsymp
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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Followed by Craig Venter:
#ISBsymp @JCVenter begins keynote. Credits @ISBLeeHood for leading charge to digitize biology. http://pic.twitter.com/QJDRioLu
ISB.USA @ISBUSA
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Sun, Apr 15 2012 12:58:38
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@b0yle
RT @digitalbio: #ISBsymp Venter: SNP studies on single human genes clog journals with drivel.
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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@TheRickWilson
RT @b0yle: Human microbiome study ranks among the most important projects for human health - slide from @JCVenter at #ISBsymp
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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@AgeMarker
@JCVenter: we need digitised description of at least 10000 phenotypes to begin to understand the human genome at #ISBsymp via @vangos
Wed, Apr 11 2012 14:08:19
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ISB.USA @ISBUSA
RT @b0yle: "You can't have life without DNA because the protein turnover is so fast" - @JCVenter at #isbsymp
Sun, Apr 15 2012 13:27:30
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Sandra Porter @digitalbio
Venter: all they know about 25% of the genes is that the cells dies when they knock them out. #ISBsymp
Sun, Apr 15 2012 13:36:53
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Alan Boyle @b0yle
Around 100 million genes discovered; view them as design components for synbio, like resistors and capacitors. - @JCVenter at #ISBsymp
Sun, Apr 15 2012 13:37:43
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This link has more background on Craig Venter's synthetic DNA work:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/28/6363909-strange-twists-in-a-dna-message
Sandra Porter @digitalbio
Venter: Eliminating agriculture as we know it should be a goal of modern science - because it's so wasteful #ISBsymp
Sun, Apr 15 2012 13:42:55
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Pablo Ramdohr @Opiado
RT @digitalbio: Venter: microbial fuel cells - can make electricity & clean water. #ISBsymp
Sun, Apr 15 2012 13:51:08
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For another easy to read and share version of all of the above, check out our ConferenceBites.Com post at http://www.conferencebites.com/2012/04/highlights-and-favorite-quotes-from-institute-for-systems-biology-international-symposium.html

And for more about ISBSymp as a whole go to:

www.systemsbiology.org/symposium