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Bioinformatics in Apulia
→ www.ba.itb.cnr.it/bip-day We’re on-line with the new website dedicated to a Bioinformatics meeting addressed to all the Apulia actors of this science’s branch. The event will take place next december...
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The missing piece to changing the university culture
Current PhD training programs are focused primarily on the academic career track despite its disheartening outlook: the number of awarded PhDs is significantly outpacing the available positions1, 2,...
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scientific bad poster bingo
Bad Poster Bingo A “game” to play at your next scientific (or schoolar) conference. If you win ALL the times then point your browser to Better Posters to get some insightful tips & tricks on the...
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The homogenization of scientific computing, or why Python is steadily eating...
Speaking only for myself, I’ve now arrived at the point where around 90 – 95% of what I do can be done comfortably in Python. So the major consideration for me, when determining what language to use...
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ORCID – connecting Research and Researchers
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports...
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the Data Science workflow
via Josh Willis’s talk From the Lab to the Factory: Building a production machine learning infrastructure.Filed under: ITB CNR, on the Web Tagged: data, Josh Willis, keynote, science, workflow
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AllBio Congress – Florence 2014
We’ve finally published the website regarding this year’s AllBio conference, entitled: Broadening the Bioinformatics Infrastructure to Unicellular, Animal, and Plant Science To know more, and register...
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a game changer
Researcher Natalia Ivanova was parsing this data when she noticed something strange: several bacteria had really short genes, around 200 nucleotides long, a far cry from the more typical 800-900...
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scientific publications have to make transition to open science
“An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors’ published claims. Therefore, a ondition of publication in a Nature journal is that authors...
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Google Refine
WOW! This project by Google is extremely interesting and versatile. A colleague of mine has discovered it while studying some solution for a bioinformatics problem he’s facing. This kind of tool will...
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Nature, science in all-you-can-read format
All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal’s publisher Macmillan announced on...
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But Where Do People Work in This Office?
I could go on and on and on. The pattern keeps repeating. With everything we know about openplan offices, why are these mega-rich companies knocking themselves out to hire the very best and brightest...
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solving DESeq2 installation issues
At work a colleague asked me to do a system-wide installation of the R module DESeq2 in one of our internal servers. The installation procedure is quite straight-forward:...
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BBC Knowledge Explainer DNA
Filed under: ITB CNR, on the Web Tagged: BBC, biology, DNA, documentary, science
View Articlepassword protect your Tomcat powered project
At work we’re in the middle of the development of a new Tomcat powered bioinformatics application, and have reached the stage were you have to show it to some peers but not make it publicly available....
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Academicons, a font icon set for academics
For working reasons I had to work on a project at work were for each researcher I had to link a ‘social’ profile, not on Facebook or other popular – consumer – networks, but for some specialized ones...
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WoPPER: Web server for Position Related data analysis of gene Expression in...
It’s been officially announced the publication of the latest work of my colleagues here at Italy’s National Council of Research Institute for Biomedical Technologies regarding the data analysis of...
View ArticleA ‘new’ job
Thursday, February 1st was the first day of my ‘new’ job. After 130 months of precarious work I am now employed with a permanent and full time position as a Technician for the Bari’s research unit of...
View Articleone more year at ITB, Bari – CNR
Technical Collaborator … Aug. 1st I’ve started (yet again) a 12 months collaboration contract with Bari’s section of the C.N.R.’s Institute for Biomedical Technologies for the “Identification,...
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Dysregulation of MicroRNAs and Target Genes Networks in Peripheral Blood of...
At the end of August 2018 its been published the latest work of my colleague Maria Liguori and I’ve been put in the Acknowledgments section for my contribution in the project. It’s a pleasure for me to...
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