BioStar, the StackOverflow for bioinformaticians

If you are a programmer you may already know StackOverflow, which is a forum-like website dedicated to questions about computer science with a innovative design and a very active community, and probably the best place on Internet where to ask when you have doubts related to programming. Thanks to a recent post on the biopython-dev

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My first GeneOntology term!!

Today the maintainers of the GeneOntology database have accepted a term that I had proposed two days earlier. Therefore, since today I am the daddy of ‘integral to lumenal side of endoplasmic reticulum membrane‘ (GO:0071556)!!! :-) GeneOntology is a database of terms used to describe the functions and the properties of proteins and objects of

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