I'm not a very competent perl programmer. Even writing the word programmer here makes me slightly embarrassed. I do carry out frequent sequence conversions and manipulations with perl scripts I've put together though. Sometimes when I need to run a script many times I've found...
Just came across the 2007 impact factors for evolutionary biology journals. I think these are only recently available? Anyway no great surprises I guess, but good to see that MBE and Syst Biol are doing so wellTRENDS ECOL EVOL 14.79 ANNU...
I’ve been thinking recently about how best to organize my research data and experimental records. I’m not sure my needs are the same as everyone else’s, but I doubt they are so very different. Mostly I want to record GenBank searches, phylogenetic analyses, little bits...
John Hawks has a nice post concerning evidence for human population size in the stone age. This work relates to Behar et al "The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity" and the press releases and coverage that it has received. Careful reasoning and analysis like he...
There is a new release (94) of the SILVA database of ribosomal DNA sequences. 23,133 Metazoans, 88,997 Eukaryotes and 606,879 SSU sequences in total.I'm having a few problems installing ARB on a new machine but need to start exploring this phenomenal phylogenetic resource more closely....
There was a message on the excellent EvolDir mailing list a few days ago about FastTree. This is a very fast neighbor-joining program for very large scale phylogenetic analyses. It uses profiles rather than a distance matrix and includes local support values instead of bootstraps....
