
Nodalpoint is a bioinformatics weblog.
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Cumulo Software has just released turnkey BLAST servers on EC2. The BLAST servers handle web service requests in a simple format. You can start as many servers as you need to achieve your desired throughput. It uses the latest BLAST+ software and databases....
If you are interested in running a Drupal site with PubMed content you should check the screencast below. It explains how it can be done with existing Drupal modules. I'm working with a student from the University of Szeged on a PubMed module for Drupal. So...
Hi, python 2.6 is going to implement a new kind of data (like lists, strings, etc..) called 'named_tuple'. It is intended to be a better data format to be used when parsing record files and databases.You can download the recipe from here (it should be included...
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Welcome to the 11th edition of Bio::Blogs, a monthly round-up of bioinformatics related blog posts (with some additional -omics and open science flavors). The PDF version for this month can be found here for offline reading. For the curious, the previous PDFs...
Welcome to the 10th edition of the Bio::Blogs, the monthly roundup of bioinformatic related blog journal. This months edition is brought to you from the CRG, Barcelona. I am here for two weeks to work under less than ideal conditions :). As before a PDF version...
During the last three months I have been working as a trainee at the Molecular Systems Biology journal. My contract is know finished I thought I would post about my short experience in publishing for anyone possibly interested is testing this career path. To...
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We're launching a new wiki experiment this afternoon, driven by staff at Nature Reviews Genetics. The September '08 issue of NRG includes a new paper from bioinformatics hero Lincoln Stein, describing the "cyberinfrastructure" of databases, protocols and services...
Earlier today, on Hacker News, I found a link to an announcement for Eureka! Science News. What caught my attention, other than seeing science on Hacker News was the post itself, with all kinds of good Drupal geeky goodness (read the entire post, esp the algorithmic...
Duncan Hull offers an interesting commentary on the rapid increase in the number of biologically-oriented databases. He asks whether all of this abundance is leading to nothing more than a bad case of data indigestion, in which data is dumped into write-only...


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