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Bioinformatics tool development part 5 – reinventing the wheel

  Before I launch into my next part, I just wanted to quickly say that today is a holiday here in Vancouver. Of course, it’s one of those weird provincial holidays that no one really has ever heard of...

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Academic biologists and bioinformatics, where does the company fit in?

  I’ve been incredibly busy the past few days, working on several major projects at once, which is only possible because of some incredible convergence between several biologically unconnected research...

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Increasing the pace of discovery – bioinformatics diversity

  So, once again Dan Frost provided me with a great question in the comments that demands a full blog post. Dan wrote:   […] what I was getting at was wondering how you would see the type of...

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Genomics Haiku

  We have a really small white board here at the BCGSC on the first floor, where people post challenges, jokes or otherwise. Nothing stays there for long, as there isn’t room for more than a couple of...

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My thoughts on patents.

  Earlier this week, I got an email from a colleague from my days back at “the start-up” to let me know that the first patent that we’d applied for had been granted. Attached to the email was a pdf...

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Announcing the death of the Micro-array

  Ok, here it is: Micro-arrays are dead. D – E – A – D…. Dead. Dead as a doornail… dead like the fish head someone tossed into the compost bin last weekend, despite the fact that compost won’t be...

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First thoughts on diaspora

Yes, I’m a sucker for alpha software, and in the case of diaspora, pre-alpha, it seems. That’s nothing new to me: my laptop runs a version of Ubuntu that hasn’t officially been released yet, so yes, I...

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Publish your computer code! Comment on a Nature News article

Ok, I’m back. Yes, I’ve been busy. (You can read that as 2 weddings, one of them being my own, as well as the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday, a family emergency, and several major projects all on the go...

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Science blogs and Caveat Emptor. A comment on an Analytical Chemistry editorial

Two days in a row, I’m going to be blogging in response to an editorial, however, today’s post is on a completely different topic: The changing face of media. Introduction: There’s a very brief...

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I’m outta here…

I’d like to say thank you to everyone who has commented on my blog over the last year, and a big thank you to the people at Nature who helped get me set up, in particular Lou and Mat and I’m sure a lot...

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