# IRC Log Summary - September 21, 2016

* A question was raised about finding the largest mineable collection of PubMed full text outside of PubMed Central (PMC), with kanzure noting that the entire PMC database is available for download.

* Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a $3 billion initiative to cure all diseases, with kanzure observing that "cure all diseases" is actually more ambitious than "fix aging," making the "too ambitious" counterargument less reasonable.

* A discussion about curved linear rail systems took place, with users sharing resources for gear-driven rounded tracks from companies like Bishop-Wisecarver Corp (BWC), HepcoMotion, and other vendors of curved and linear rail systems.

* A user shared information about AWS Snowball, noting that 3scan was sending 1 petabyte of data per week to AWS, with the service costing $200 per job plus shipping charges.

* A technical question was asked about whether BLAST tools (blastn/blastp/megablast) have streaming output capabilities or if they only output matches after all processing is complete.

* A security update for Irssi (version 0.8.20) was announced, with instructions for mitigating issues for those who cannot immediately upgrade.

* A link was shared to a paper titled "Cancer and viruses" from PubMed Central, potentially relevant to discussions about disease research.