Blog of bioinformatics papers, links and stories that I thought were interesting (so your mileage may vary).
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For future Google reference, the Sony PRS-505 is perfectly compatible with OSX (just like the Kindle). If you plug it into your mac's USB port it should show up as a new disk image ("Untitled", but still); just drag and drop EPUB, PDF or text files into the...
New Scientist this week has an eye grabbing cover.The cover sports a big green tree with the words Darwin Was Wrong. I hope they sell a lot of magazines with that load of tripe, since they certainly were not thinking about the generations of school kids and...
The bulk loader for App Engine doesn't support unicode (?). Irksome.Here's a quick and dirty solution if you've got iconv installed.iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t ASCII utf8_data.csv > ascii_data.csvDrops unacceptable unicode characters (i.e. anything that doesn't have...
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linked to by 13... at the end of the post. But first a disclaimer: to be included you had to (a) have a 'working science' blog indexed by Postgenomic, (b) have claimed your blog on Technorati and (c) have uploaded a portrait there. That's why the set of bloggers represented...
linked to by 5More playing around with the Postgenomic API.Postgenomic collects a lot of stats. The relative hotness of different bloggers is not one of these stats. This must be rectified (I'll put up an analysis of the results after a few days) Sorry, for this to work...
I've been pretty quiet over the last week or so because... well, because I just got an Xbox 360 as an anniversary present (King Kong rocks). My talk of putting off any new video game related purchases for a while in favour of flash based biology games made...
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Following on from my post last month about using OpenID as a way of identifying individual researchers, Chris Rusbridge made the sensible request that when conversations go spreading themselves around the web it would be good if they could be summarised and...
All your Google Reader stats are belong to us.Following on from the blogroll data I took a look at the subscriber counts in Google Reader for each science blog that we track. Some things to bear in mind before trying to make sense of the data: Google Reader...
…with a biologically-relevant application for Google App Engine, is Euan with pycite, a port of Connotea. Man, this makes me want to learn Python fast.More thoughts and commentary at Deepak’s blog....