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From the monthly archives: February 2009

Papers for iPhone, a brief review

By On February 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Papers, from Mekentosj, is a literature management program for Mac. It organises pdfs into a searchable library, and stores the appropriate metadata associated with scientific articles (which it retrieves from public repositories such as PubMed, though in practise you can tag any document with any metadata).

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Blog for Darwin

By On February 12, 2009 · 4 Comments

This post forms part of the ‘Blog for Darwin’ blog carnival.

I wasn’t going to write this post. I am very much of the opinion that holding up one man as a figurehead for an entire science is a mistake, and sets up too many straw-man arguments for detractors to propound (of the [...]

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MMR scaremongerer sicks the legal dogs on Ben Goldacre

By On February 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

Let the blogosphere and twittersphere spring to his defence!

See here for full details, but a London broadcaster had a half hour long rant on her show about the ‘dangers’ of the MMR jab on 7th January.

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Gold Standard not so shiny?

By On February 3, 2009 · 2 Comments

This paper caused a bit of a stir when it was published last week. The suggestion that highly curated ‘gold standard’ databases may not be as high quality as has been assumed had august figures such as Henning Hermjakob up in arms and countering as swiftly as humanly possible.

Protein-protein interactions, at the [...]

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