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Bioinformatics Community Building in Newcastle 26 Jun 2012 | 06:09 pm
Ooohhh look, a blog post. Not seen one of those in a while around these parts… I’ve been rather busy since taking on my new job (which I guess I should now refer to just as ‘my job’). Hence the lack ...
Making an RSS feed from Google Reader shared items 22 Nov 2011 | 12:35 pm
A month ago there would have been no reason to write this post, because Google Reader made it’s own RSS feed of the posts you wanted to share. See, Google wants to drive people to use Google+, and the...
R programming courses at Newcastle University 23 Sep 2011 | 03:49 am
An announcement courtesy of Colin Gillespie, a lecturer in Maths & Stats here in Newcastle: The School of Mathematics & Statistics at Newcastle University, are again running some R courses. In Janua...
Science Online London 2011 8 Sep 2011 | 11:39 pm
It is hard not to get carried away in a room full of people who seem mostly to want the same things. You come away from a conference like Science Online thinking that the open science revolution is in...
Salbutamol promotes SMN2 expression 5 Sep 2011 | 11:02 pm
This is a cross-post from the Blogging for Science Online London group blog. During the Saturday workshop at Science Online London 2011, a bunch of us wrote content relating to Spinal Muscular Atrophy...
Position available in the Bioinformatics Support Unit, Newcastle 12 Aug 2011 | 03:29 am
Further to my last post, I am able to announce the availability of a position in the BSU, to work with me (it’s my old job!) Official details are below, or you can find the full ad on the Newcastle U...
Brand new same old job 20 Jul 2011 | 08:57 am
The week before last I had my first job interview in 6 years (actually 6 years and one day, to be precise), and I’m delighted that 15 minutes after I left the interview room, I was offered the job. I...
Really impressed with Tagxedo – shaped word clouds. Here is a word cloud of my PhD thesis in the shape of a Drosophila: 2 Jun 2011 | 08:08 pm
I worked on developmental genetics of Drosophila melanogaster for my PhD. You can find Tagxedo at http://www.tagxedo.com/. A lot of the tools (such as adding your own images for word cloud shapes) are...
Announcing a Bioinformatics Kblog writeathon 10 May 2011 | 01:59 am
(Reposted from Knowledgeblog.org) The Knowledgeblog team is holding a ‘writeathon’ to produce content for a tutorial-focused bioinformatics kblog. The event will be taking place in Newcastle on the ...
Automatic citation processing with Zotero and KCite 13 Apr 2011 | 09:43 pm
Writing papers. It’s a pain, right? Journals are finicky about formatting. You write the content and then the journal wants you to make it look right. You finally get the content in the right shape an...
