MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'howto'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:21:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4780436&cid=t_145166_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2FLa6T9b7tCF0%2F As part of our newly launched FungiDB I wanted to demonstrate the capabilities of attaching additional annotation to gene records.  This is an important feature that allows the community to contribute to the knowledge base about an organism’s genes and gene functions.  This can be done by anyone in the community who has registered an account. Once the information is entered is also searchable so that added gene names are immediately part of the searchable text across the entire database. We encourage you to register for an account (which allows you to also save your strategies and queries) and also to provide feedback about the look and feel (interface), the datasets that are provided, the need for additional species, and the capabilities and tools in the system. Linking to a gen... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4780436 Tue, 03 May 2011 15:50:39 +0100 4780436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119040&cid=t_145166_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSciencebaseScienceBlog%2F%7E3%2FPqmQqTsh2mM%2Fsix-sexy-science-books.html at least one or two of which would make perfect holiday gifts for the science geek, nerd, dweeb, or dork in your life. Remember Science is Vital and so are books. Science: The Definitive Guide by Piers Bizony – As a kid, I devoured books like this, you probably did too, it is a big, bold, and eyecatching introduction to chemistry, physics, geology, biology and cosmology. Each section has a big-fonted title and a lively opener followed by more in-depth exploration. But, these days, having authored and co-authored several of the genre myself, I find each new one sadly lacking. Yes, they give you a nice taste of science, but they're never definitive, there's always some topic that has been overlooked, some niche that is not covered in quite enough depth. Casual readers ar... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119040 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:42:36 +0100 4119040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581569&cid=t_145166_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F20%2Freclaim-your-privacy-on-facebook-using-a-simple-bookmarklet%2F Of all social networking sites, Facebook causes the greatest privacy concerns. Certainly since it has changed its privacy options over time. In the beginning, Facebook restricted the visibility of a user’s personal information to just their friends and their “network”, but the default privacy settings have become much more permissive, as you can see in [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581569 Thu, 20 May 2010 00:53:51 +0100 3581569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3378403&cid=t_145166_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F18%2Fpackrati-us-twitter-delicious-useful-simple%2F To me, Twitter is an essential source for information. It is an easy way to keep updated in my field, it is fast and it is an ideal networking site to build relationships. Without it I wouldn’t have ‘met’ so many excellent and interesting people. In fact those people are my living filter to the [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3378403 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:32:50 +0100 3378403 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3276120&cid=t_145166_180_f&fid=38616&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifelearningtoday%2Fwlyf%2F%7E3%2FUqdcuU5KQa0%2F photo credit: dan taylor What is a Favicon and Why Should Your Blog Have One? A favicon is short for “favorite icon.” It is the little image you see in your browser tab next to the name of the website you are viewing. All favicons are the same size: 16×16 pixels. The one for Life Learning Today blog is: The reason why you want to have one is for branding purposes. People will get to know your favicon and can quickly switch to your site on one of their browser tabs simply by recognizing your favicon. They will also be able to quickly spot it in their list of bookmarks. So now that you see the value in doing this the next step is how to get a favicon image. It’s really easy and free. Here’s how: How to Create Your own Favicon for Your Wordpress Blog The easiest ... Life Learning Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3276120 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:40:08 +0100 3276120 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3271013&cid=t_145166_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F13%2Fsillysaturday-17-social-media-stats-per-second%2F more about “Garys Social Media Count“, posted with vodpod Some time ago I saw the above Real Time Social Media Stats Counter at Heidi Allen Online (see here), the blog of Heidi Allen. The live stats meter is actually from Gary Hayes at Personalize Media (see post: Garys Social Media Count). You can find the embed code [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3271013 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:49:24 +0100 3271013 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3197929&cid=t_145166_180_f&fid=38616&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifelearningtoday%2Fwlyf%2F%7E3%2FRGorAH-ZSdQ%2F photo credit: Selma90 Certainty = Security = Good Certainty = Same-Old-Thing = Boring = Bad Little Surprises = Something New = Exciting = Good We want to feel safe in our relationships. We want safety on all levels: emotional, physical, spiritual, etc.  We also crave things that are new.  Over time, in our relationships we start to take for granted all the good things about the other person. We get caught up in life and don’t take the time to do special things for each other. Sometimes this is because we think that it will take too much time, energy, or even resources (like money). Here is a very simple way to add newness to your relationship. It takes little time, energy, and it’s free. The little surprise that will keep your relationship like new is (drumroll please……) Kindnes... Life Learning Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3197929 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:16:19 +0100 3197929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3052428&cid=t_145166_180_f&fid=38616&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifelearningtoday%2Fwlyf%2F%7E3%2FfjCgXlCNihs%2F photo credit: Chrysaora If you’re like most people you engage in negative self-talk quite a bit. In fact, it probably happens a whole lot more than you realize and causes a lot more limitations on your life than you want. The good news is that there is a key that will unlock this door. On the other side of that self-negativity door is a brighter, happier reality for you. I started thinking about this subject when I recently listened to Pema Chodron’s audio program “Bodhisattva Mind,” (which I highly recommend. She is an amazing buddhist teacher with a light and humorous style.) In her program a student had a question for her that went something like “How is it that I can meditate for so long and still always wake up as my same shitty self.” Pema’s... Life Learning Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3052428 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:34:21 +0100 3052428 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2556063&cid=t_145166_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F30%2F10-1-pubmed-tips-for-residents-and-their-instructors%2F The next Grand Round, the weekly rotating carnival featuring the best medical blog posts, will be hosted by Edwin Leap, a practicing emergency physician. Because the  Grand Rounds are on June 30 -one day before July 1st, which is the traditional start of that thrilling and harrowing journey called ‘residency,’- Edwin decided to make the [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2556063 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:17:42 +0100 2556063 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074259&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35021&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FYourBonesGotALittleMachine%2F%7E3%2F500578758%2F A quick post to share some bookmarklets I made. I’ve found QR-code “2D barcodes” really handy when playing with my Android phone. Sometimes, I have a web page open on my desktop PC, and I want to quickly load it in the Android Chrome browser to see what it looks like. Rather than re-typing it with my thumbs, the Barcode Scanner application allows me to scan a QR-code from the screen of my computer, and if the decoded text contains a URL, open it in the Android browser. These two bookmarklets turn the URL of the current page that is open in your browser into a scannable QR-code: Google Charts API based bookmarklet: Drag this link –>Current URL to QR-code to your bookmarks toolbar. The code is: javascript:location.href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&am... Your bones got a little machine. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074259 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:13:17 +0100 2074259 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1960797&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.pansapiens.com%2F2008%2F11%2F12%2Fsearching-bioinformatic-databases-with-yubnub%2F You may already be familiar with YubNub; it describes itself as “the social command line for the web”. Most commands consist of two (or more) words … one for the search engine, the other for the query. For example, typing: gg open science on friendfeed into the YubNub search box searches Google for “open science on friendfeed“, via YubNub. I thought I’d highlight a few life science- and bioinformatics-related YubNub commands I find myself using quite often in my day-to-day work. Some are commands I created, others someone else created. This is the beauty of YubNub … often someone has already made the ‘obvious’ command … it’s worth just trying to search with a command you expect to exist, since it often does. Onward, with the... Your bones got a little machine. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1960797 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:33:39 +0100 1960797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1768967&cid=t_145166_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fk-0AzB31coY%2F Courtesy of Wired magazine, a wiki about how to deal with your mild autism. Tips include: 1 Interrupt party chatter 2 Time yourself 3 Be honest at work 4 Look ‘em in the eye 5 Make it work for you 6 Know thyself 7 Reminders, Reminders, Reminders 8 Reduce Distractions 9 Find an Editor From item #5,  Make it work for you: Asperger’s isn’t an illness, it’s a set of characteristics, and you can turn these to your advantage. Find roles where your relentless curiosity can be a plus. Become an expert in your company or field, the go-to guy* for details, but learn to offer only what’s needed when asked. (* more than 95% of Aspies are male) I appreciated the positive outlook here and emphasis on using Asperger’s to one’s advantage, and the small Socratic... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1768967 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:14:00 +0100 1768967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1730705&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.pansapiens.com%2F2008%2F08%2F25%2Fsetting-up-wwwblast-on-ubuntu-apache%2F Recently I needed to install NCBI wwwblast on my local workstation to enable some software that needed to interface with BLAST via the web service. It was straightforward to install, but I took some notes, because there were a few changes required with respect to the official wwwblast documentation at NCBI. These instructions are for Ubuntu 8.04, but probably will work with many recent flavours of Debian. Download and install Download NCBI wwwblast from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST/ (The version I used was wwwblast-2.2.18-ia32-linux.tar.gz). Untar it into /var/www/ , preserving permissions. $ cd /var/www/ $ sudo tar zxvpf wwwblast-2.2.18-ia32-linux.tar.gz Set up Apache2 The instructions in the official wwwblast manual didn’t seem to work for Apache2 .. (could be a... Your bones got a little machine. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1730705 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:30:07 +0100 1730705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2463387&cid=t_145166_180_f&fid=38616&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifelearningtoday%2Fwlyf%2F%7E3%2FfXoE5mVzDcw%2F photo by ceiling I used to be a runner back in high school and college and then I got busy with career, living life, and starting a family. In recent years I was dedicated to brisk walking most days of the week, and sometimes I would even jog a little. But I was never able to get back into running. Until recently. I made one simple change and it has made the difference between being a walker and, now, being a runner. (Well, jogger, at least!:) So what did I do differently? I went from exercising for time to exercising for distance. In a nutshell, what I did was just start. (Right after I had my annual physical. ) I jogged as far as I could go on the first day, and then each day after that I went just a little bit further. After about a month, I’m now jogging 3 miles a day, 5-6 days p... Life Learning Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2463387 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:48:24 +0100 2463387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1543325&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35021&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FYourBonesGotALittleMachine%2F%7E3%2F318516926%2F For some reason which I can’t really articulate, I’m not a huge fan of Django templating. I’d actually prefer to use Genshi with Google App Engine, but I need to wait until all the kinks are ironed out, since as far as I can tell it’s not quite working painlessly yet. Another templating option is Mako, which I’ve barely used, but I still prefer to Django templates. One nice thing about Mako: it’s faster than most Python templating engines out there. So, here’s a quickie on how I got Mako working with Google App Engine. It wasn’t tricky at all, but I thought I’d document it anyway. Checkout Mako from SVN and copy the directory mako/lib/mako to the path of your application, eg, on Linux: $ cp -r mako/lib/mako myapp (where myapp is the dir... Your bones got a little machine. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1543325 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:31:33 +0100 1543325 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1546726&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2008%2F05%2Forganised-bioinformatics-experiments%2F One of the things I’ve found in two years of doing bioinformatics, is that directories quickly fill up with files, usually data, scripts, and results. Working out the contents of each file is difficult as the only identifier is the name, which with lots of similarly named files, is confusing. Using lots of scripts gets more complicated when there are dependencies. For example scripts need the data from one file, or are dependent on an intermediate set of results from the output of another script. These dependencies mean that when a set of results needs updating, usually many times when producing a manuscript, scripts need to be re-run in the correct order. The requirement of manually re-running scripts in a specific order is cumbersome, and easily generates errors. A previous post I wro... Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1546726 Sat, 24 May 2008 18:43:04 +0100 1546726 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2463390&cid=t_145166_180_f&fid=38616&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifelearningtoday%2Fwlyf%2F%7E3%2FNqCbGN_d7y0%2F A couple months ago I redesigned and upgraded my Wordpress blog and I’m so glad I did. I’ll tell you all about the benefits I received from my redesign and I’ll also tell you how I did it so that if you are going through the same process you can benefit from what I learned. Benefits of a Wordpress Blog Redesign These are the improvements I’ve attained from my redesign: 1. More Functional Layout Makes it easier for readers to find the best stuff on Life Learning Today. How to Do It Yourself: Purchase a premium Wordpress theme from Solostream. There are several highly functional and elegant themes to choose from. I use WP-Glory. The pricing is very reasonable and the support alone is worth the cost. Customizing is a breeze with these themes. If you’re looking ... Life Learning Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2463390 Wed, 21 May 2008 01:45:05 +0100 2463390 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1250104&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fzotero-library-re-visioned%2F I have been wanting to use Zotero now for a while for my reference library but could never work out how back up my library using subversion. My life is contained within subversion, I do not know how I could have possibly survived before all my work; code, presentations, papers, images and not to mention my thesis, is all perfectly backed up and re-visioned and floating happily in the cloud available to me from any machine. Zotero installs itself inside the firefox profile which makes it difficult to revision within the C:\\my-subversion” folder. What I decided to do was to create a new firefox profile (instructions here) within my-subversion folder then install zotero creating: C:\\my-subversion\firefoxprofile\zotero I then only added the zotero folder to my subversion repository. Yo... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1250104 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:18:24 +0100 1250104 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1182844&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fhow-to-avoid-errors-when-processing-csv-files%2F A lot of bioinformatics involves reading data from files to manipulate them for our analysis. For example, I spend a lot of time importing data from CSV files into my database. Doing this involves creating a script to iterate over each line of the file, then referencing each token in the row by its column number. However this is bad for two reasons. The first reason is because it introduces a dependency on the column number, which may feasibly change. You can fix this by changing the script though, so this is not too bad. The second reason is much more worse, because it could introduce a silent error. If the column number was wrong, then the wrong entry would be referenced. If correct and wrong entry where both of the same type, e.g. floats, then there is a chance you would miss the mistak... Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1182844 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:44:49 +0100 1182844 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=994885&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F31%2Fontology-crowdsourcing%2F I have the unenviable task of developing an ontology for the CARMEN project which will allow the process of electrophysiology experiments, the generated data, the analysis of the data and the services that perform the analysis, to be described, and in addition be computationally amenable. Collecting the words that are required to described these tasks are relatively trivial. However, getting the scientists to realise they have assigned numerous meanings to the same word or term requires a little bit more patience on my part. It also requires me to educate the scientists, in that building an ontology for electrophysiology is a little more complicated than putting some “words” in a text file. The words in an ontology have to be explicitly defined so as to be completely unambiguou... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=994885 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:43:20 +0100 994885 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=959702&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F18%2Fwindows-and-ubuntu-synergy%2F I have just installed Synergy on my Gutsy Ubuntu machine. This allows me to switch seamlessly between my ubuntu desktop and my windows laptop using the same keyboard and mouse. It was very easy to install, via apt. I followed the ubuntu synergy how to and it worked perfectly first time. (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=959702 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:55:27 +0100 959702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=928805&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fcomparing-two-populations-using-different-graph-types%2F I think the title says it all. If you have two populations such as “Treatment” and “Control”, what type of graphs can you use to compare the two? Have a look at the examples, then pick the corresponding R code. All of the charts come from either excellent lattice package, or the superb ggplot2 package. The code should also work for multiple populations as well. lattice Box plot Violin plot Density plot ggplot2 Box and whisker plot Box and whisker plot with points Density plot Histogram plot (Source: Bioinformatics Zen) Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=928805 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:35:38 +0100 928805 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841722&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fmeaning-from-pca%2F Back from Madrid. I spent three weeks there on an excellent data analysis course, which I would recommend. Not only did I learn valuable techniques, I also got the chance to spend my evenings by the pool or in Sol eating tapas - which explains the lack of posts this July. I offer this brief tutorial in recompense, continuing the theme of data analysis. (more…) (Source: Bioinformatics Zen) Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841722 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:35:11 +0100 841722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841723&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fexploring-multivariate-data-using-svd-and-som%2F Hola from Madrid, I’ve come here for a data analysis summer school. Last week, there was an interesting class on dimensionality reduction, and since multivariate datasets are prevalent in this -omic era, I thought to post a discussion of what I learnt. The aim of this example is illustrate one technique for visualising multivariate data, singular value decomposition, and a second technique for exploring it, self organising maps. (more…) (Source: Bioinformatics Zen) Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841723 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:57:00 +0100 841723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841736&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fggplot-a-plotting-alternative-to-r-base-and-lattice%2F If you found the tutorial on drawing graphs using R a bit of a kerfuffle, there’s a good introduction on drawing graphs using the ggplot package. An alternative to the R base and lattice packages - so now you’ve got three to choose from. (Source: Bioinformatics Zen) Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841736 Mon, 14 May 2007 17:00:52 +0100 841736 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841739&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fbioinformatics-simple-graphs-in-r%2F Graphs and statistics, you can’t really get away from it. Even if you try, like a warm seafood sandwich, it’ll come up later. So here I made up some example data to produce a short tutorial on how to represent common types of information in R. (more…) (Source: Bioinformatics Zen) Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841739 Fri, 04 May 2007 13:49:11 +0100 841739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841750&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fbioinformatics-sometimes-you-have-to-write-and-not-computer-code%2F You love making programs that reveal yourself as a programming god. You produce results that demonstrate you are, quite obviously, the greatest scientist of our generation. You show these to everyone in your office/corridor/family, they all appreciate your magnificence. After a few talks at conferences comes the bit you’ve been avoiding - writing everything up. I think I’m fair in saying that you went into bioinformatics for something other than writing reports and papers. At some point though, you have to. Set a daily goal When I have to write, I set a goal of 500 words a day. Even if they are complete nonsense, which they usually are. Writing, like everything else, gets better with practice. My writing usually becomes more coherent, the more I do. Once you’ve got everyt... Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841750 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:49:47 +0100 841750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841755&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F02%2Forganising-yourself-as-a-dry-lab-scientist%2F Browsing wikiomics, I found this small section on keeping organised as a practising bioinformatician. In particular these lines contain gems of information. Use text files/plain e-mail whenever possible Give meaningful names to your files Create separate folders/directories for each project with meaningful names I find keeping my work organised one of the most frustrating but necessary tasks of being a bioinformatician. Also this subject seems to recieve little attention in the bioinformatics community. Wet scientists are expected to keep laboratory books. Where not doing so considered very bad practice. I am jealous when I see these books filled with pictures of gels and printed tables of results. I’ve tried using a lab book, but I didn’t find it applicable for the many ... Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841755 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:17:38 +0100 841755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841756&cid=t_145166_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2007%2F02%2F10-simple-rules-for-getting-published%2F A post at Nodal point discusses a PLoS Computional Biology article on the problems of being a post doc. The post also contains another interesting PLoS reference - 10 simple rules for getting published. The main points of the article are reading papers regularly, and being objective about research, especially your own. UPDATE : There’s also a discussion of this at Biocurious (more…) (Source: Bioinformatics Zen) Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841756 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:27:45 +0100 841756