I worked on developmental genetics of Drosophila melanogaster for my PhD. You can find Tagxedo at http://www.tagxedo.com/. A lot of the tools (such as adding your own images for word cloud shapes) are free in the beta, but I guess won’t be forever.
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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 [...]
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The top visualization project of the year, according to FlowingData, is a project by Ben Fry, which shows changes to the theory of evolution over time. The project takes advantage of the publication of the
I’m a bit behind the zeitgeist here, I know, but Wordle is a pretty cool little tool. I think the cloud of my CiteULike tags fairly reflects my academic interests, and the fact that even after 5 years away from the lab, ‘wet’ techniques dominate, I really should make more of the [...]
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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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