On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 08:34 -0700, Brown, Henry, DoIT wrote: > Could Matlab create Greene Chip DNA microarray software to run on > OLPC? > http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/news/Lipkin_GreeneChip.html > http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=2573 > http://laptop.org/ > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080121100909.htm > > If the MATLAB software could run on OLPC it could be used to monitor > disease in the field. > I worked with AIDS patients and child nutrition programs while in the > Peace Corps. > We saw kids die every week from RSV and dehydration caused by > diarrhea. > We did not know what antibiotic to give. > OLPC could use MATLAB software to integrate DNA array results to > diagnosis. > An expert system similar to Mycin could then be used to diagnose > disease in the field via the web. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
Creating new software to read and analyze DNA microarrays is not hard. MATLAB is not required. If you can make the case for microarray analysis, appropriate software can be created easily enough. However, reading a microarray typically requires a high-resolution digital fluorescence microscope, which is very expensive. Therefore, any clinic that can make use of this technology is likely to be able to afford more appropriate dedicated computing hardware than the XO. --Ben Schwartz _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
