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Everyone is visited by the F-Up Fairy, once in every while. And it happens to the best of us, including, I’m delighted to say, Nature‘s web team: We have had a number of complaints regarding the Nature Register page. After … Continue reading →

I’d like to take this opportunity to give feedback on the feedback that the students gave on their feedback. With me? No? The Honours students gave their proposal talks last week. A random panel of academics assessed and made written … Continue reading →

bq. When I started writing a weblog I made a conscious decision to avoid the cesspit of stupidity that is both sides of the evolution:creationist ‘debate’ (it’s not a debate if there are no cogent arguments). But this is too … Continue reading →

Members of Joel Sussman’s lab at the the Weizmann Institute have developed Proteopedia (direct link ), an online tool for making structural biology clearer for chemists and biologists by linking textual content to 3D structures. Impressive. For a born-again structural … Continue reading →

Textism is crap, as I discovered when trying to format the code snippets that I wanted to put into this post. The post I wanted to write is at http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/labrats/2008/03/on_randomization_monte_carlo_a_1.html It describes how I took a Perl implementation of the … Continue reading →

We have just had two days of Honours proposals talks, in which all our fresh-faced young students have to talk for ten minutes about what they intend to do while in the lab for the next six months. These talks … Continue reading →

Perhaps all these difference splice variants don’t mean anything? A Darwinian nightmare, from which we need another 15 million years to wake? Am I doomed forever, released only by the endless Sleep, to search for patterns where there are only … Continue reading →

Ian York is approaching the 1.0 release of XPlasMap . He’s actively soliciting bug reports and feature requests. Go to it, team.

I want to work on TWINKLE . I don’t care what it does, I just love the name.

Elsewhere on the internets I’ve been reading about what sort of music people listen to in the lab. Back in Cambridge we used to have about 8 solid days’ worth of music in iTunes, as well as access to everyone … Continue reading →