MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog' source. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:06:02 +0100 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/08/27/science_blogging_at_the_royal_institution_london Nature Publishing Group are organising a workshop on science blogging, this Saturday 30th August 2008 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. Why would you care? Because there are: Lots of interesting people... ...talking about a range of interesting subjects ... .. in a distinguished venue that has recently been refurbished. It is also home to the fantastic Christmas lectures and much more besides. To cap it all, I think it will be great fun too. So if you're going, see you there. If you're not, it is never too late to publish your fantasy science funding entry. Much of the conference will be televised and blogged, making it available online too. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1734030 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:07:17 +0100 1734030 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/08/14/lets_play_fantasy_science_funding Fantasy Science Funding is a fun game that anybody can play. You select a Science funding body of your choice, imagine yourself as its all powerful chief executive, and decide which areas of scientific research you would "hire and fire". What could be easier? Here is how Fantasy Science Funding works... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1711773 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:39:02 +0100 1711773 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/07/25/how_history_affects_pattern_matching_inside_the_genome In a recent Science magazine article, Löytynoja-Goldman showed that all current Multiple Sequence Alignment algorithms – the bread-and-butter algorithm for biologists studying similarities in genes across different species – completely fail to detect independent insertions in the alignment of sequences, and thus, erroneously mismatches regions of evolutionary volatility. In their improved MSA algorithm, PRANK, they use history itself to improve the performance of this basic algorithm. [more...] (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1655507 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:28:33 +0100 1655507 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/07/02/tree_of_life I'm not much of an evolutionary biologist, but Jonathan Eisen asked for help and I can't resist. So, in the name of Science, and via the goodness of nodalpoint, here is some deserved Google Juice for various Trees of Life on the Web. Jonathan Eisen's "Tree of Life" blog Tree of Life Web Project Tree of life (science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Green Tree of Life at Berkeley Fungal Tree of Life Project Beetle Tree of Life project Fly Tree of Life project Mammal Tree of Life project Cypriniformes Tree of Life project Liverwort Tree of Life Project Early Bird Tree of Life project Early Bird Tree of Life project Angiosperm Tree of Life project Cnidaria Tree of Life Project Decapoda Tree of Life Project There, and since we will soon be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, let us marvel at the coral / shrub / lungs of life too. (CC-licensed Tree of Life picture by Phitar) read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1563943 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:44:17 +0100 1563943 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/06/03/hunting_for_cytochrome_p450_genes_in_maize Hello, Just wondering if anyone on nodalpoint is in a position to help with gene hunting for cytochrome p450 genes in Maize (just for fun)? Some more details at whether maize carries the protective cytochrome p450 or the “defective” version of the gene and Researchers Identify Genetic “Fix” for Problem in Some Sweet Corn Hybrids. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1492114 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:19:16 +0100 1492114 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/05/09/i_still_havent_found_what_im_googling_for Twenty one years ago this month, in May 1987, Irish rockers U2 released their classic Joshua Tree single, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Those twenty one years have seen incredible technological change: the adoption of desktop computers, mobile phones, the birth of the Web and the widespread use of search engines like Google. So with sincere apologies to Bono, The Edge, Adam and Larry, it's time we updated the lyrics for the 21st century. So, I give you "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Googling For" (21st anniversary, 2008 webby edition)... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432528 Fri, 09 May 2008 09:48:48 +0100 1432528 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/05/03/introducing_the_eyelims_project Scientists usually share information with collaborators from all around the world. For that purpose, eyeOS (www.eyeos.org) provides an unvaluable system to access and share documents, create and save data files or store crucial personal and professional information. To see eyeOS widely used by scientists all around the world, we initiated the eyeLIMS project ! eyeLIMS is a community-driven project which aims at providing a Free, web-based, Open Source Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) powered by eyeOS. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1420473 Sat, 03 May 2008 15:22:57 +0100 1420473 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/04/14/ensemblog_the_ensembl_weblog The Ensembl Weblog provides news, views and announcements about the Ensembl Genome Browser. The blog has been going for a few years now, but I’ve only just become aware of it thanks to a recent Ensembl Genome Browser Tutorial by Bert Overduin. Catching up on posts from Ensemblians this year, Ewan Birney wrote a piece about The Gene Love-in last week and Paul Flicek briefly described the 1000 Genomes project back in January. The Ensembl Weblog is fairly low traffic, so if you don’t already read it, it’s worth considering subscribing to the feed. And it’s good to see more scientists using blogs to communicate. Long may this trend continue! read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1370782 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:16:06 +0100 1370782 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/04/09/taverna_tutorial_and_version_2_0_preview There are a few remaining places left on the Building Scientific Workflows for Bioinformatics and Systems biology using Taverna course held in Manchester, UK on 15th April 2008. Attendance at the workshop is free, but participants will have to cover their own travel costs. Due to the hands-on nature of the workshop, numbers are limited to 30, so there is a ‘first-come, first-serve’ policy on bookings. Book now to avoid disappointment! read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1360642 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:39:35 +0100 1360642 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/04/03/conferences_perk_or_peril_to_the_planet Not long ago I thought that conference travel was a perk of the trade, and helped compensate for the academic salary and lack of six-figure bonuses. This was despite the fact that I have been a leftie/green for as long as I can remember. Denial works in mysterious ways. Now I have read Six degrees by Mark Lynas and see airport expansion potentially going crazy in London - and I think maybe all this conference travel can be reduced. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1352089 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:03:29 +0100 1352089 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/03/07/need_help_with_dupal_aggregator Hi, I'm very new to drupal, and not a programmer... though I have several (without drupal experience) in my lab. I would like to take the results of a pubmed search at NCBI, and use the feed in drupal. I can get the RSS link to work nicely in NetNewsWire (Mac). When I use drupal aggregator everything is displayed (abstract etc), I want to just list out the titles. I've tried to use the NCBI controls to regulate the output, but it seems tat doesn't apply to the RSS feed which gets everything. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1294429 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:16:01 +0100 1294429 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/02/29/fermilab_physicist_running_for_congress_mar_8th If you're interested, spread the word. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1266601 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:44:56 +0100 1266601 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/02/22/bio_blogs_19 Bio::Blogs 19 is fast approaching, hot on the heels of Bio::Blogs 18 which was hosted by Michael Barton. I'll be hosting this one over at O'Really? and publishing it at the beginning of March, so send any interesting stuff to bioblogs /ate/ gmail.com. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1248930 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:21:22 +0100 1248930 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/01/18/one_thousand_databases_high_and_rising Well it's that time of year again. The 15th annual stamp collecting edition of Nucleic Acids Research, also known as the 2008 Database issue [1], was published earlier this week. This year there are 1078 databases listed in the collection, 110 more than the previous one (see Figure 1). As we pass the one thousand databases mark (1kDB) I wonder, what proportion of the data in these databases will never be used? read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1161036 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:08:37 +0100 1161036 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/01/15/whos_the_daddy_pcr ♫ PCR, When you need to know who the Daddy is ♫ ... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1152540 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:05:00 +0100 1152540 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/12/21/north_carolina_science_blogging_conference ... taking place on Sat, January 19, 2008, and they have a wiki. It seems from the schedule, that the first day is a hands-on tutorial on blogging, while the second has more broad discussions on ethics (intellectual property?) of scientific blogging, how it can contribute to the advancement of 3rd world countries etc. Also following a link from the conference's website, I found this book with the best science blog writings in 2006.... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1112674 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:38:11 +0100 1112674 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/12/21/blogging_speakers_corner_of_the_internet There is a famous place in London town, inside Hyde Park, known as Speakers' Corner. It is a space where free speech and self-expression prevail. At Speakers' Corner, anyone can say anything they like about anything they want to anyone who cares to listen. There are some obvious parallels between blogging and Speakers' Corner as well as one rather striking difference. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1109825 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:06:34 +0100 1109825 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/12/14/kill_a_scientist_today Is there a scientist in your laboratory (or elsewhere) you'd like to wipe out? Perhaps you know a crackpot Computer “scientist”. Or an Arrogant Physicist? Meddling mathematician maybe? Stubborn statistician? Bonkers Biologist? Kooky Chemist? You could try Nerd Sniping them, as demonstrated by Randall Munroe over at the University of XKCD. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1094195 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:14:26 +0100 1094195 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/12/07/mapping_the_internet As of 2007, the Internet is mostly still a wild untamed jungle. Many people have tried to chart the territory, but what should a map of the internet look like? read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1079742 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:31:33 +0100 1079742 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/12/07/documenting_bioinformatics_apis It seems that most bioinformatics web services use SOAP, and the extent of their documentation is the accompanying WSDL file - not very helpful for anyone who wants to use them outside a workflow-type tool like Taverna, and even then often not descriptive enough to know what should go in each field. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1076283 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:32:40 +0100 1076283 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/11/30/burn_semantic_web_burn Taking down A.I. town? The Semantic Web is (quote) "a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers". It will "unleash a revolution of new possibilities" using a magical "new" artificially intelligent technology called ontology. So says a much-cited article in Scientific American published back in May 2001. Most people who have read this article, fall into two camps: "believers" and "non-believers". Let me tell you a short story about a religious war between these two groups... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1062877 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:30:38 +0100 1062877 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/11/23/nature_is_a_whore Nature is a whore. These are not my words, but the words of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana on the song In Bloom. What, exactly, did he mean? read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1046701 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:11:43 +0100 1046701 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/11/20/question_self_promotion_on_other_peoples_open_source_software_website I recently posted some scripts on my blog (match.py a Python script that calculates the RMSD of PDB structures). It's a little esoteric, but I thought someone out there might find it useful. Here's the rub. Hours after posting it, I got a comment. When I read the comment, I was rather surprised - it was someone advertising a program that does the same thing as mine. The question I want to ask, do you think this is kosher? (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1040094 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:38:20 +0100 1040094 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/11/15/data_integration_in_the_life_sciences_2008 Mon dieu! Doesn't time fly? Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) is here again, see the Call For Papers. This time, DILS will be in Evry near Paris. The conference is on June 25-27, 2008 but if you're thinking of doing a paper, you've got until February 20th 2008 to submit. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1030156 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:38:53 +0100 1030156 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/11/13/journal_article_search_via_rss_mashup I've been trying to come up with a nice way to mashup and process RSS feeds, mostly for the reason to be able to track articles from Journals that publish content that interests me. The best solution seems to be the workflows that can be constructed at Yahoo Pipes. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1028220 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:58:26 +0100 1028220 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/11/06/nodalpointless_whats_the_point_of_blogging Sometimes I wonder what what the point of blogging is and just how much time people (myself included) waste reading and writing them. Let's face it, most leading scientists are too damn busy to pay much attention to the blogosphere, especially when it descends (as it frequently does) into "uncontrollable verbal discharge". This unfortunate medical condition is also known as Blogorrhoea. A free-flowing blog is unlikely to directly increase a scientists productivity (as approximated by the infamous h-index), and might even decrease it. Now, we all know that powerpoint can be PowerPointless, so is blogging a pointless activity? Or to put it another way: Nodalpoint or Nodalpointless? read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1009435 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:51:11 +0100 1009435 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/10/19/watson_http_en_wikipedia_org_wiki_james_d_watson_comments From the guy who is already known for: "woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual" "a link between skin colour and sex drive, positing the theory that black people have higher libidos" "argued in favour of genetic screening and engineering on the basis that " stupidity" could one day be cured" "People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would great" Comes another: "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really" read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965890 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:25:29 +0100 965890 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/10/19/the_webolution_will_be_televised The American Gill Scott-Heron once famously remarked that The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Science has undergone its own quiet revolution since the invention of the Web back in 1990. This has slowly but surely changed scientific communication, a "Webolution" if you like. The recent addition of television to the Web means that, to paraphrase Gill, the Webolution will be televised. You can now watch some of the webolution in science, thanks the likes of JOVE (The Journal Of Visualised Experiments), SciVee.TV, Google Video and YouTube. What are these sites like and is their scientific and technical content any good? read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=962566 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:19:13 +0100 962566 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/10/17/how_the_scientific_publishing_industry_began_to_eat_itself Greg Tyrell recently remarked that there was no point in defending open-access publishing because its triumph is a foregone conclusion. I agree with him. However, for the younger guys out there, it may not be obvious why subscription science magazines is going the way of the Dodo. So I would like to offer some history. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=958890 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:44:40 +0100 958890 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/10/17/the_luxuriant_flowing_hair_club_for_scientists_lfhcfs Calling all Scientists, is your hair luxuriant and flowing? Perhaps you're a bouffant bioinformatician, a hairy hacker or share a lab with somebody who is? If this is you, its high-time you joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957278 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:10:17 +0100 957278 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/10/05/dry_lab_notebook I've been skimming through my notes recently and I've been thinking about a good way to organize things electronically. Inspired by a post in Bioinformatics Zen, I decided to use a wiki (not MediaWiki, as it's really overkill), and I chose DokuWiki. However I think most of my research is done by taking daily notes, therefore a wiki is not really a good option because daily posts have to be created manually. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=931151 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:20:14 +0100 931151 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/10/03/referencing_blog_posts_in_a_thesis Hello. I'm almost done with my Ph.D. thesis, and while looking for some critical views of Gene Ontology I've stumbled over an interesting blog post by Kay on the subject. He quotes some papers which I promptly added in the thesis's references, but I would like to add also some of his blog posts in the reference. Has anyone ever added blog posts to their references? Is this an acceptable practice? read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=926250 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:41:21 +0100 926250 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/10/02/redundancy_reduction_of_sequence_sets Does anyone have a good (free, open source) software solution to reduce the redundancy of a set of sequences (eg return a set where no two sequences are more than 90 % identical, based on a pairwise alignment) ? read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=923740 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:37:50 +0100 923740 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/09/13/nodalpoint_usa Just a short note if you're interested in meeting up: I'll be in the US over the next two weeks. I'll be attending Discovery 2 Diagnostics in Philadelphia from Monday the 17th until Wednesday, after which I'll be in New York until Friday morning. I plan to stay over the weekend in LA, and then from Monday until Wednesday I'll be in San Fransisco. The whole trip will be sponsored by my company, but evenings will be free, so if you're in the area, have some time and would like me to buy you a beer then get in touch: greg.tyrelle@gmail.com. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=868237 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:51:51 +0100 868237 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/09/12/translation_of_the_recent_prism_press_release If you haven't read the hilarious press-release from the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine, I've provided a handy little translation. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=867315 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:57:55 +0100 867315 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/09/05/semantic_biomedical_mashups_with_connotea The Journal of Biomedical Informatics, will soon be publishing their special issue on Semantic Biomedical Mashups (can you fit any more buzzwords into a Call For Papers?!). Ben Good and friends have submitted a paper on their Entity Describer which extends connotea using some Semantic Web goodness. They'd appreciate your comments on their submitted manuscript over at i9606. As Ben says, their pre-publication turns out to be an interesting experiment "figuring out how blogging might fit into the academic publishing landscape". If this interests you, get commenting now! read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841708 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:14:41 +0100 841708 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/26/if_you_publish_in_oa_journals_youre_publishing_communism Open Source Communism: Open Source CommunismI don't participate much in the OA Debate, largely because I see the outcome as a foregone conclusion. What we are seeing now is the reaction of publishers with an established business model (read license to print money) being threatened by change. Given that OA will not be going away, in my opinion what publishers should be doing is thinking creatively and developing new business models for scientific publishing. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=823033 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:00:36 +0100 823033 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/20/site_maintenance_shortly I plan to do some site maintenance (including the wiki), starting in about 20 min or so and I expect it will talk an hour (probably less). So if you're planning to post or edit something (unlikely) hold off for a while. I'll be on IRC (irc.freenode.net, #nodalpoint) if you're interested to know what's going on in real time. Update: Both the Drupal and wiki upgrades are complete. Read on for details... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=811192 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:13:31 +0100 811192 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/18/blog_updates The past month or so has seen a mini-explosion in new blogs of interest to our readers. I've added half a dozen or so to the wiki list. Feel free to edit or add new ones if you have wiki access, or submit suggestions either via submit weblink or as a comment here. I know I've forgotten one or two, please don't be offended! (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=808671 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:22:54 +0100 808671 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/15/everyone_is_doing_it_why_cant_we I decided to jump on the bandwagon, the same Rosie Redfield jumped because of Pedro: Open Science. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=800081 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:02:08 +0100 800081 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/13/a_most_ugly_hack_translating_from_charmm_to_amber_trajectories Ever wondered how you might translate trajectories from one Molecular Dynamics package to another? It's a thorny little problem that's afflicted quite a few structural biologists. Here's one ugly solution that I am rather proud of. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=795126 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:48:49 +0100 795126 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/12/nodalpoint_on_facebook If you use Facebook, and you enjoy reading and/or writing here at nodalpoint, please join the Nodalpoint group on Facebook. Hopefully this might facilitate more social networking amongst fellow nodalpointers. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=794219 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:25:04 +0100 794219 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/11/sciview_part_5_interview_with_alexei_drummond SciView is back with another interview. This time is Dr Alexei Drummond's turn. He is a lecturer in Bioinformatics, and also the Chief Scientist at Biomatters, the developers of Geneious (and here). read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=793724 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:59:14 +0100 793724 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/07/scifoo_geek_out_le_geek_cest_chic As well as big famous superstars at scifoo, theres a chance to meet and "geek out" with younger scientists like Vince Smith, Aaron Schwartz and Vaughan Bell. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=785907 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:19:58 +0100 785907 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/06/scifoo_day_3_genome_voyeurism_with_lincoln_stein Day three of scifoo: Lincoln Stein (picture right) gave a presenation on genome voyeurism, using Jim Watsons genome as an example read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=782983 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:27 +0100 782983 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/06/scifoo_day_two_good_morning_mashup Some of the most interesting conversations you have at scifoo are in the corridors, foo bars and even the bus that shuttles between the Googleplex and the hotel... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=781360 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:43:14 +0100 781360 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/04/scifoo_day_1_turn_up_tune_in_drop_out My boss, Douglas Kell, who has kindly allowed and paid for me to attend scifoo 2007, says to me "tell me what you get up to". So here goes. Scifoo day 1, A chance to meet and around 250 engineers, scientists, philosophers and other odd people from all over the world. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=779997 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:26:44 +0100 779997 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/02/bio_blogs_13_online Here it is, complete with PDF (760 KB). Tired now. Enjoy. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=776144 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:42:19 +0100 776144 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/08/01/nar_2007_test_drive In a heroic effort (and cleverly achieved through RSS), Andrew has compiled a table of webservers for bioinformatics from this year's NAR webserver edition. You can find it on this wiki page. If you try one of these servers, help the community by leaving a brief comment about your user experience. Was it accessible? Easy to use? Did it do what you wanted or expected? That kind of thing. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=773371 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:38:54 +0100 773371 http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/07/30/nodalpoint_in_california Scifoo is here again, which means I'll be in San Francisco for a bit. If you're going, see you there (don't forget the flowers). If you're not going, but would like to meet up somewhere in the Bay Area (Thursday 2nd or Sunday/Monday 5th/6th) send an email to duncan.hull \ate\ cs.man.ac.uk . read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=765769 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:48:11 +0100 765769