Jan 4, 2008

Biology with Firefox

Posted in Chemspy at 12:14 pm by David Bradley -- 1 Comment

 

Firefox-using molecular biologist kinda person? Then, you should check out BioFox (thanks for Bertalan Meskó of ScienceRoll for the tip off).

Code bioFOX integrates various bioinformatics tools into the Firefox web browser, allowing users to analyse genes without all the hassle of retrieving data from NCBI or Swiss-Prot and can then manipulate the information via various tasks including: Translation of a nucleotide sequence, blast search (For eg. blastn, blastp etc.) of the desired nucleotide/protein sequence, …

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Nov 8, 2007

Open Notebook Science

Posted in Chemspy at 9:30 am by David Bradley -- 4 Comments; add yours

 

I just listened to Cameron Neylon’s fascinating talk given at Drexel a short time ago, it’s available as a podcast/mp3 via the UsefulChem Blogspot. Neylon has turned to modified blog software to help his team capture their ongoing science and is now opening his laboratory notebooks to the world.

Several things struck me from his talk. First, he points out that grad students are generally reluctant to get involved if it means more work, …

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May 4, 2007

Molecular wolfram demonstrations

Posted in Science at 4:00 pm by David Bradley -- 3 Comments; add yours

 

Buckyball mathematicaThe Wolfram Demonstrations Project launched this week and represents what the developers describe as “a major new resource for research and education”. Well, that’s as maybe, but what is it? The project was first conceived by Stephen Wolfram creator of the Mathematica software that as its name suggests allows computers to produce visualisations of mathematical concepts.

The project sits under the umbrella of open-code and uses dynamic computation to bring …

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