links for 2009-05-13

• Management idea: Disruptive technology/innovation | Disruptive technology/innovation | The Economist
  'More and more companies began to look for “breakthrough opportunities”, developments that would enable them to leapfrog ahead of their opponents. This they needed because more and more of them came to believe (along with GE’s legendary leader, Jack Welch) that they had to be number one or two in their markets, or not in them at all. For those at the back, there was only one way to jump into those positions—by a big dramatic change. Business as usual was just not going to make it.'
  (tags: innovation technology+and+society entrepreneur)
• COHRI - Home
  'The Consortium for Oral Health-Related Informatics (COHRI) was formed in February 2007 during a users group meeting of dental schools who used the same EHR platform (axiUm). The Tufts University School of Dental Medicine had proposed the idea to form a consortium to share data to facilitate clinical research in dentistry. Subsequently the first meeting of COHRI was held just 5-months later in June 2007 with representation from 10 dental schools. The consortium keynote speaker was Dr. Isabel Garcia, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.'
  (tags: physio-mimi ontology biomedical+informatics evidence-based+dentistry)
• WebHome < CTSpedia < TWiki
  'CTSpedia is a pilot project initiated in 2007 by the CTSA funded Biostatistics Research Ethics and Design (BREAD) program at UCSF. The project was initiated to form an information resource created by researchers for researchers in clinical and translational science to share valuable knowledge amongst local researchers. In the spring of 2008, CTSpedia was presented to the national CTSA’s Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Research/Design (BERD) Online Resources and Education taskforce as a vehicle for driving progress in the task forces’ goals to identify and share resources across the national consortium and community researchers world-wide.'
  (tags: physio-mimi biomedical+informatics bioinformatics ontology)
• PLINK: Whole genome data analysis toolset
  'PLINK is a free, open-source whole genome association analysis toolset, designed to perform a range of basic, large-scale analyses in a computationally efficient manner. The focus of PLINK is purely on analysis of genotype/phenotype data, so there is no support for steps prior to this (e.g. study design and planning, generating genotype or CNV calls from raw data). Through integration with gPLINK and Haploview, there is some support for the subsequent visualization, annotation and storage of results. '
  (tags: physio-mimi bioinformatics genomics)