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Author Archives: Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio
Two short “Agile Bioinformatics” talks
I have just come back from the Programming for Evolutionary Biology course in Leipzig, version 2013!! The course is still going on, but unfortunately this year I could not stay the whole duration three weeks, as I have stuff to … Continue reading
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Notes from a “Write it clearly” course
I recently took a course on improving English Writing skills for researchers. These are my notes, organized as a series of “Do and Do not” lists, plus some separate list for each section of a research paper. Feel free to … Continue reading
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I wrote a videogame for the Wii
I wrote a small web game for the “Week of Science 2012″ (Semana de la Ciencia), a science divulgation initiative organized in Spain. I participated to it as a member in the Institut of Biologia Evolutiva of Barcelona, the institution … Continue reading
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Gamestorming for bioinformatics
Most meetings in academic research groups are awful. I have attended meetings that lasted hours and hours, and didn’t produce any useful output. I know researchers who try to avoid meetings as much as they can, and prefer to work … Continue reading
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N-Glycosylation – one pathway, two distinct selective constraints
Our group just published a new paper in BMC Systems Biology. The title is Distribution of events of positive selection and population differentiation in a metabolic pathway: the case of asparagine N-glycosylation. It is already on the journal’s web page. The … Continue reading
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Planning a 8-hours “Introduction to Linux” course with trello
Next week I am going to give a 8 hours “Introduction to Linux” course at the “Programming for Evolutionary Biology” workshop in Leipzig. In this post, I will describe how I have used a nice planning software called “trello” to … Continue reading
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Origins of Evolutionary Innovations, chapter 5
The fifth chapter of prof A . Wagner’s “Origins of Evolutionary Innovations” tries to answer to the question: “Under which common principles do metabolic networks, regulatory circuits, and sequence folds evolve?“. It also formalizes a framework for a theory of … Continue reading
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Origins of Evolutionary Innovations, chapter 4
The 4th chapter of “Origins of Evolutionary Innovations” discusses variation in protein and RNA sequences. How much aminoacids or nucleotides can I change in a sequence, without breaking its fold? How new fold and functions are found in evolution? Wagner … Continue reading
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The genotype space – how does it looks like?
Today, in the metro, I have finally understood what is the form of a genotype space. A genotype space is a representation of all the possible genotypes that can possibly exist, and in which two neighbor points are different only … Continue reading
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