http://binary.reathasandie.com Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:50:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en testing site http://binary.reathasandie.com/2009/01/23/test/ Setting up PHP, Apache and MySQLMac OS 10.5 is a great place for web developing, as I am discovering. When I got my new MacBook Pro, I found that it had Apache already installed, including several other development tools that are useful to me, such as perl, PHP and subversion. ... http://binary.reathasandie.com/2008/03/28/the-foibles-setting-up-a-development-environment-on-mac-os-105/ You know you're in an emerging field when you see things like this: ...Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation set up in 1998. (Bioinformatics research in the Asia Pacific: a 2007 update) I simply find it worthy of note that I work and study in a field whose 'old and venerable' organizations are ... http://binary.reathasandie.com/2008/02/14/small-new/ There's a new blog out there, called io9, and it's pure scifi. It covers everything from spoilers of the newest scifi shows/movies to the latest info on from NASA on sunspot activity. The posts are interesting and witty, and full of nostalgia for the great scifi of the past that's ... http://binary.reathasandie.com/2008/01/09/scifi-geeks-unite/ There are some interesting science images over at National Geographic. Click on the image to go directly there. http://binary.reathasandie.com/2007/09/28/27/ A co-worker found this while scanning through Wikipedia's entry on the genetic code... Needless to say, it's been changed. http://binary.reathasandie.com/2007/09/13/an-amusing-piece-of-online-vandalism/ It's interesting to see what happens when someone who has a grasp of the capability of technology today, is also the person who can best make use of it. When Munroe took over as chief two years ago, his department was drowning in crime and data. Police had a mass of ... http://binary.reathasandie.com/2007/08/10/the-power-of-policing-and-technology-when-used-right/ One of my recent projects has been to map short sequences of DNA (tags) to specific positions in transcripts (ie. exons, introns, UTRs). Everything was going along nicely, until I was looking through my output data and saw something weird. I had one sequence map itself to an exon and a ... http://binary.reathasandie.com/2007/07/15/mapping-in-ensembl-theres-always-a-catch/ I recently stumbled upon this paper: Conversion of amino-acid sequence in proteins to classical music: search for auditory patterns Rie Takahashi & Jeffrey H Miller Genome Biology 2007, *8*:405 _"The primary goal of this work is to convert genome-encoded protein sequences into musical notes in order to hear auditory protein patterns."_ This is an interesting ... http://binary.reathasandie.com/2007/07/08/theres-music-in-our-genes/ Blogs are a great way to get involved in the bioinformatics/computational biology/systems biology world. At the most basic level, it allows you to learn what others are doing, how they're doing it and what problems they've encountered. It can also point you in new directions, by referencing papers, people or ... http://binary.reathasandie.com/2007/06/25/blogging-in-the-bioinformatics-world/