A fab opportunity to learn about podcasting is happening at the Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown this weekend: PodCamp. I’m sure notes, and, well, audio and video will be available as the conference goes on.
Oh, oh, while we’re on bioinformatics. My favorite thing to do to explain to people about bioinformatics is to show them kegg, the kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes.
Now genes code for particular proteines that act as enzymes, and these enzymes are arranged in particular pathways, like a factory production line.
The most famous pathway [...]
Next to bioperl, there’s also biopython!
Pat Gunn here.
BioPerl is an opensource project to provide a rich set of interfaces to retrieve and manipulate BioInformatics data. BioInformatics is a field concerned with computer cataloguing and modelling of biological data, covering things from genetic sequences to proteins. While modelling can be done locally, the governments/universities of Europe and the United States (and [...]
Pat here.
I came across an advertisement for this on the way back from lunch today — it’s a group that aims to compare the results of people learning about and having a structured conversation on a topic, followed by a poll, against simply having the poll from the start. The topics are those of interest [...]