Today I am sat in a room with a fairly large group of people, who all work on the Taverna project. They are writing a Knowledgeblog book about the workflow manager, and I am providing help and technical assistance as a part of my role on the Knowledgeblog project. As well as producing [...]
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 [...]
We’ve spent a couple of months now on Knowledgeblog since JISC funded the project. My one day a week working on developing the tools and workflows for lightweight publishing has presented totally different challenges to the majority of my work, and I’m really enjoying [...]
About 2 hours after I grumbled slightly on Twitter about my MP not responding to my letter, I got an email:
Dear Dr Cockell
I can confirm that Ian has now signed EDM 767 and the online Science is Vital petition; however, he will be unable to attend the lobby in [...]
Yesterday I wrote to my MP, which is something I’ve not done before. The axe is about to fall on public spending in the UK, and science is at grave threat. My letter was based on the template that the ‘Science is Vital‘ campaign provide, [...]
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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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