I've been thinking about sustainable and accessible archiving of bioinformatics software, I'm pretty scandalized at the current state of affairs, and had a bit of a complain about it before. I thought I'd post some links to other people's ideas and talk a bit about the...
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, Citeulike, and others are all playing the social reference management game. You store your PDFs in their excellent programmes and then you can start to be social; form groups, browse subject categories, subscribe to other people's reference lists. My question is this: is...
For those of you who haven't come across it before Bio-Linux is an operating system set up for bioinformatics with a huge number of programs pre-installed. It can be obtained (for free) from the NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre. I've spent quite a while recently messing...
I came across a nice program by Heroen Verbruggen called TreeGradients."TreeGradients is a tree drawing program. The tree drawing options are fairly basic but the program has the ability to plot several types of continuous variables at the nodes in colors and use linear color...
The script I referred to in my last post is actually seqConverter.pl written by Olaf Bininda-Emonds, with a few minor modifications to send the output directly to phyml. I thought I would flag up his site which has a large and very useful collection of...
Following on from my previous post I decide to try Google Maps as an interface to large phylogenetic trees. This was a very quick and dirty go at seeing whether it would work as a navigable interface. I tried the implementation at MapLib which allows...
It seems that Genome Projector has swept the blogosphere over the last 24 hours. I’ve seen it listed on many of the blogs I’m reading. It looks very good and intuitive. I just wanted to mention a couple of things.This is a beautiful example of...
