AjaXplorer
Discovered while developing the release 2.0 of an existing tools from our Institute, AjaXplorer seems to have a lot of potential both as a module for many popular CMS tools, as well as a stand-alone...
View ArticleCOST workshop Barcelona 2013
→ http://www.seqahead.it/cost-bcn-2013Filed under: deploy, events, ITB CNR Tagged: 2013, Barcelona, cost, deploy, NGS, SeqAhead, Spain, workshop
View ArticlealternaTIFF
AlternaTIFF is a web browser add-on (ActiveX control or plug-in) that displays most of the common types of TIFF image files. It works in most web browsers for Windows XP and higher (Vista, 7, etc.)....
View Articlep7m files, digital sign and Mac OS X
Nearly two years ago I wrote a post on my personal english blog about Thunderbird and the P7M-file attachments. In the meantime more and more bureaucracy has gone under the digital-sign mandatory...
View Articlebuiling a website for a workshop / meeting
So, nearly a month ago I’ve deployed online with the COST Workshop Barcelona 2013 event website, prepared in a fast-and-furious mode since deadline was approaching and the number of things to do for...
View ArticleCOST workshops – Bari 2013
→ http://www.seqahead.it/cost-bari-2013Filed under: events, ITB CNR Tagged: Bari, bioinformatics, cost, ITB, ITB Bari, job, NGS, workshop
View Articlehttp://www.seqahead.it/cost-bari-2013
Friday I gave you the URL of the most recent website I’ve realized for my AllBio assignment here at ITB, Bari. The “NGS and non-coding RNA data analysis Workshop” that will be held here in Bari...
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,...
View ArticleBioinformatics 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View Articlescientific 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleORCID – 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...
View Articlethe 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
View ArticleBioPerl on Mac OS X
How To install BioPerl on a Mac, from OS X 10.5 “Leopard” to 10.9 “Mavericks” → Filed under: ITB CNR, OSX, Software Tagged: bioinformatics, bioperl, how-to, mac, osx, perl, Software
View ArticleAllBio 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...
View Articleintroducing GitHub to scientist
→ Making science more open at GitHub OpenSource magazine (formerly an only RedHat-news driven mangazine) interviews Arfon Smith, taking the occasion to introduce to scientists of all aver the world,...
View Articlea 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...
View Articlescientific 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...
View ArticleGoogle 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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