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Byte Size Biology

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The musings and ravings of a computational biologist about science, computers, music and, you know, stuff.

• Added on: Jan 13th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: idoerg
• Listed in: Science Education & Learning
• Tags: Evolution biology bioinformatics genomics microbiology

Recent Posts

• Videos on sequencing

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 10:13 in biology, dna, biotechnology, genomics, sequencing, metagenomics, pyrosequencing

  A few cool vids on sequencing. Company infomercials, but still entertaining and informative. Thanks to my student, David Ream, for finding these. Pyrosequencing: Helicos: SOLiD: BASETM nanopore sequencing: ...

• The Tao of Programming

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 in Software, books, programming, funny

  I was recently reminded of this classic by Geoffrey James. Here are a few of my favorites. The whole text is available online. In the beginning was the Tao. The Tao gave birth to Space and Time. Therefore Space and Time are Yin and Yang of programmin...

• Thankful for…

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 16:24 in Software, music, programming, blogging, miscellaneous, nih, social media, bioinformatics, blast, open access, free culture, open source software

  In no particular order or context. No personal stuff and by no means a complete list: Wordpress (like, duh). Wikipedia (default for looking up new stuff) Wikis in general (great lab management tool. Don’t need LIMS) Open Access Publishing and...

• Photosynthesis, phages and structures: there’s treasure everywhere!

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 16:38 in science, bioinformatics, microbiology, photosynthesis, viruses, cyanobacteria, bacteriophages, structural biology, metagenomics, stuctural biology

  Here’s a really cool work, published this September in Nature.. Why did I choose this work?  Well, it’s a major discovery, and it’s all done using bioinformatics, and fairly simple bioinformatics at that. The power of metagenomics...

• The Warren L. DeLano Memorial Award for Computational Biosciences

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 15:32 in bioinformatics, award, in memoriam, open source software, structural biology, pymol

  Warren DeLano passed away suddenly and at a young age at his home Nov 3, 2009. He was the author of PyMol, a very popular molecular visualization program, and a strong advocate of open source software. The family of Warren Lyford DeLano has created a...

• Book: Thirteen / Black Man. Richard K. Morgan

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 19:28 in books, science fiction

  To say that Thirteen is a futuristic Chandlerian hardboiled-detective-fiction meets Gibson cyberpunk in a Swiftian satire of contemporary USA would be a cumbersomely loaded one-liner describing a no less loaded but sleekly streamlined novel. Saying t...

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