If you aren’t familiar with the work of Ben Fry (blog), you really owe it to yourself to spend a few hours surfing around his work. His work is beautiful and inspirational. Don’t miss his Ph.D. dissertation.

Ben is the author of the recent O’Reilly text Visualizing Data (review coming soon).

I first came across Ben’s work at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC. If you are ever in New York, the Cooper Hewitt is a great way to soak up great design.

A few years ago, my boss Lincoln Stein prognosticated the end of bioinformatics.

According to Google Trends he just might be onto something. Searches for bioinformatics have dropped in half in the past four years. C’est incroyable! Not surprisingly, the top-ten sites for searches for bioinformatics are all in India.

Gory details available by searching Google Trends for bioinformatics.

Interesting parallels in the trends between bioinformatics, molecular biology, proteomics, and C. elegans: