I’m giving a lecture next week to the Bioinformatics Masters students here about protein structure prediction. As part of the introduction to this topic, I have a traditional ‘data explosion’ slide, to illustrate the gap between the quantity of protein sequence data available versus the number of solved protein structures in the PDB (hence the [...]
I’ve just returned from a week away in North Yorkshire, and scanning through my RSS backlog and FriendFeed from while I was away, I notice a few interesting developments.
Zotero made a firm announcement of a standalone version of their excellent open-source reference management tool. I’ve been [...]
In a rare move, I’m going to largely copy across a post from my work blog, because I hope it contains useful information. For background, I’m trying to write a simple python script that extracts particular metadata from a .RAW file, produced by a Thermo Finnigan mass spectrometer. Tools that exist for parsing these files [...]
I know that the beauty industry has made a habit of twisting science somewhat for it’s own ends (see this and this for instance), but this one takes the biscuit.
The wife spotted a piece in Harper’s Bazaar while she was in the hairdressers yesterday, about an amazing new beauty treatment (the [...]
(Graphs from The Independent (London), 21 June 2008)
Today was one of those days where lots of interesting stuff turns up. On the BBC, there was 2 very good pieces about the flaws in the scientific process, specifically closed peer review
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- pymzML - Python module for high throughput bioinformatics on mass spectrometry data. http://t.co/HJRqKHO5 #citeulike
- Return to work being hampered by return to work form, which is impossible to fill in on a Mac.
- Not the ideal end to the week. Blood tests and X-rays all for basically nothing. Still at least I'm home in time to have a proper weekend.
- @d_swan mine too! I assume we got the same email :)
- @jonoble I can't imagine the situation in which you would discover that...
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