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Monthly Archives: October 2005
Richard Smalley R.I.P.
Nobel Laureate and Rice University professor Richard Smalley has died at the age of 62. Smalley is best known for his discovery of buckyballs. He’s also known for his contribution to this now-famous Chemical & Engineering News nanotechnology debate with … Continue reading
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The Worst Jobs in Science
Do you have one of The Worst Jobs in Science? Popular science has ranked them this year. Here’s the list: Orangutan-Pee collector NASA Ballerina Do-Gooder Semen Washer Volcanologist Nuclear-Weapons Scientist Extremophile Excavator Kansas Biology Teacher Manure Inspector Human Lab Rat … Continue reading
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Literature-Based Generation of Hypotheses…
I’m not entirely sure what this article is about, but the start of the title sounds very intriguing. There are times when I think that some paper I’ve just reviewed was written by a perl script, using text cut-and-pasted (or … Continue reading
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Online Unit Converter
We just found UnitConversion.org, an online unit converter with auto-complete and a pretty large database of odd units. It looks like a a great tool, although it is inexplicably lacking the Debye (which we were trying to convert to electron … Continue reading
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VLinux
We’ve got a new link today to VLinux in our Bioinformatics section. VLinux is a Live CD for Bioinformatics. It contains various sequence and structure analysis tools (including EMBOSS,GDE,Rasmol,PyMOL,GROMACS,Phylip,Arka/Genpak,ClustalW/ClustalX,TCoffee, Seaview,Garlic, Ramachandran Plot viewer, Primer, XMolCalc, NJPlot, and more). [tags]bioinformatics,linux[/tags]
VLinux
VLinux is a Linux Live CD for Bioinformatics. It contains various sequence and structure analysis tools. The following packages are included in the present VLinux distribution. EMBOSS,GDE,Rasmol,PyMOL,GROMACS,Phylip,Arka/Genpak,ClustalW/ClustalX,TCoffee, Seaview,Garlic, Ramachandran Plot viewer, Primer, XMolCalc, NJPlot etc Find VLinux at: http://bioinformatics.org/vlinux
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V_Sim and ImageJ
We’ve got two new user-contributed software links today. ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program which can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images that looks like it might be really useful when … Continue reading
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V_Sim
V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries, etc. V_Sim can use information from files in binary d3 format, in ascii, or in "xyz" format. Find V_Sim at: http://www-drfmc.cea.fr/sp2m/L_Sim/V_Sim/index.en.html
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ImageJ
ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. Downloadable … Continue reading
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The Flo Control Project
I just stumbled across this great site. The owners of two mouse-happy cats wanted to prevent them from bringing them in the house, so they hacked an image recognition system onto a commercially available cat door that would compare the … Continue reading
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