# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Feb 24, 2012)

The log was relatively quiet with minimal substantive discussion, but did contain a few notable mentions:

* Kanzure shared several protein engineering resources, including "Protein Engineering Protocols" by Müller and Arndt, "Protein Engineering and Design" by Park and Cochran, and links to other protein engineering handbooks on Amazon.

* Mathnerd314 inquired about recent research in thought identification, and chris_99 shared a BBC article about advances in this field (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16811042).

* A brief discussion about space exploration timelines occurred, mentioning Japan's plans for a moon base by 2020, Russia's moon base by 2030, SpaceX's possible manned Mars mission by 2020, and China's manned moon mission around 2025.

* Yottabit mentioned that over 300 YaCy nodes (a distributed search engine) were online, and was seeking datasets of search queries beginning with interrogative words (who, what, where, when, why, how).

* Kanzure noted having access to Google Suggest data based on high-frequency queries, and uniqanomaly shared a link to Google Books Ngram datasets (http://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets).