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Author Archives: Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio
Programming for Evolutionary Biology Course – Leipzig 2012
This year I will teach in a two-week Introductory course to Programming and Bioinformatics, aimed at PhD students and Post-Docs working in Evolutionary Biology. This is a course designed for researchers that have little or no experience with programming, and … Continue reading
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a script to fetch images from the UCSC browser
The UCSC browser is a nice, useful but “mammoth-ish” bioinformatics tool that despite its web 1.0 aspect, can be a very powerful ally for any bioinformaticians or biologist. I have to admit that for many years I avoided using the … Continue reading
New ways to explore your academic impact
It seems that today, for a strange series of coincidences, is a good day if you wanted new tools to explore your academic impact. First, Google/Scholar Citations has finally been opened to all. Everybody can now create a profile on … Continue reading
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Twitting from the X CRG Symposium on “Computational Biology of Molecular Sequences”
Today and tomorrow I will be attending a symposium organized here in Barcelona, about bioinformatics analysis of molecular sequences. Many well known bioinformaticians will participate, including Temple Smith (the Smith & Waterman algorithm), Amos Baroch from Expasy and Tim Hubbard … Continue reading
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Scifund projects online
The Scifund initiative has reached its final phase. Now all the projects are publicly visible online on RocketHub. I am surprised to see how many projects have been presented! The crowd-funding seems to be a good idea to make science, … Continue reading
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Biostar paper published!
The Biostar paper has just been published in PLoS Computational Biology. Hurra! Parnell LD, Lindenbaum P, Shameer K, Dall’Olio GM, Swan DC, et al. 2011 BioStar: An Online Question & Answer Resource for the Bioinformatics Community. PLoS Comput Biol 7(10): … Continue reading
check the PRBB programmers’ blog
The Parque Recerca Biomedica Barcelona (PRBB) is the building where I work. It is a big research center built about 5 years ago, hosting about 2000 scientists working on different fields and of different nationalities. Here, we organize many different … Continue reading
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recipe for a home-made (limitless) dropbox
Today, bitbucket has enabled support for git repositories!! This means that, with a little hack and thanks to the sparkleshare project, we can make a home-made dropbox without limits of disk space. Bitbucket is a repository hosting service, like github, … Continue reading
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The #SciFund challenge begins today!
#Scifund is an experiment of ‘crowfunding’ for researchers. The idea behind #Scifund is to push scientists toward the world of crowfunding, to teach them how they can propose their research projects on a crowfunding website, and get people to contribute … Continue reading
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Ten Simple Rules paper published!
The Ten Simple Rules for Getting Help from Online Scientific Communities paper just came out on the last PLoS Computational Biology issue! It has been a pleasure and an exciting experience to coordinate the writing of my first Open Collaborative … Continue reading
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