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The Google Summer of Code project participants have been selected. I scanned the list to see how projects specifically aimed at the biosciences and bioinformatics fared:GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler), a tool for visualizing gene expression...

I see Lars Juhl Jensen has come up with a fun tag cloud of recently popular buzzwords in the biosciences. He calls it a BuzzCloud. The buzzword from the cloud I've noticed most lately is "Quantative Proteomics" ... quantitation is a good goal for the field...

I've been meaning to write about the Dapper 'screen scraping' service for a while, since I think it's mostly useful and pretty cool.(Yes, this service is called Dapper, sharing a name with the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux release. I'm a little suspicious that maybe...

Pawel over at Freelancing Science recently highlighted Qutemol, a nice looking molecular viewer that does real-time ambient occlusion rendering. There isn't any official Linux version, but I found that the Windows version runs okay on Linux using Cedega (a...

Google Desktop for Linux has been officially released. It's a real-honest-to-god native linux application, and doesn't use Wine like the Linux version of Picasa.I've just installed it on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn from the Google Linux software repositories, and while...

Original image courtesy of Flickr user docmanWelcome to the 16th edition of Bio::Blogs, the monthly digest of highlights from bioinformatics and computational biology blogs. Hat tip to Deepak for suggesting the name (we actually start to absorb many sides of...

Back at the keyboard. Difficult to see the monitor for images of rainforest-covered islands and red desert landscapes floating before my eyes. I highly recommend both Fraser Island and the Red Centre as travel destinations.There’s only one thing that...

I noticed this a few days ago over at Andrew’s blog - interesting new developments at the Protein Data Bank:The wwPDB Remediation Project “The evolution of experimental methods, functional knowledge of proteins, and methods used to process PDB data...