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 have a look at them and make use of them. If you have any comments,
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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 to which I belong to. The game is in Spanish, but I think anybody can
“Programming for Evolutionary Biology” course – suggestions for the applicants that have not been accepted
The selection phase for the participants to the “Programming for Evolutionary Biology” course in Leipzig has finished. Congratulations to all the applicants accepted! I am very sorry for the people who have not been accepted, but we have received a lot more applications than the places available, and the selection process has had to be
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 it will teach them the basics of Bash, Perl, R Programming along with popular tools
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 from the EBI institute. Check the programme here, or the Streaming Video here. The organization
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, specially in these times of crisis. I will keep it in mind for when I
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 activities related to Programming. For example, we have a Python Programmers Meetup Group which used
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, sourceforge, and many others. The good thing about bitbucket is that there are no limits
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 by helping funding them. So, today #Scifund starts its first iteration. If you have an
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 Paper. It has been fun, a different approach toward preparing and publishing an academic paper,