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  • Mar 1, 2008

    Jane, find me interesting journals, please.

    Bioinformatics just published a paper from Schuemie and Kors (Erasmus University/NL, BioSemantics group): Jane: suggesting journals, finding experts (doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn006):

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  • Mar 1, 2008

    TODO: April 2nd, defend my PhD work

    In 4.5 weeks, on Wednesday April 2 (13:30 precisely, Aula, Comeniuslaan 2, Nijmegen) I will publicly defend my PhD work performed in the Analytical Chemistry group of Prof. Lutgarde Buydens at the Radboud University Nijmegen:

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  • Feb 27, 2008

    Where's the maize genome torrent?!?

    /. just posted a story about the maize genome just published, for which the sequences can be downloaded from this FTP site. The files are not that large at all. But it makes me wonder… where are the .torrent files for the sequenced genomes? Here’s Davids catch on the story.

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  • Feb 27, 2008

    CDK is now available from your nearest Debian mirror

    Some days have passed, and the Debian mirrors have now picked up the CDK package (unstable only so far), allowing you to sudo aptitude install libcdk-java from your favorite local mirror. The details are available from this packages.debian.org/libcdk-java page. The fact that it is listed as contrib is a small mistake; the package is really main material.

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  • Feb 20, 2008

    CDK close to entering Debian

    Michael Koch (aka man-di) and Daniel Leidert (as part of the pkg-java team) have worked on packaging the CDK. The ran into some issues, such as the CDK build system not perfectly compatible with the Debian java libraries in /usr/share/java. Both detection of the available libraries as well as putting them in the classpath, caused trouble with the CDBS-based build system wrapping around the Ant build.xml (note the many commit this weekend ;).

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  • Feb 6, 2008

    Simple, Open Bug Track System: social bookmarking

    Jim replied to the request by Anthony in my blog for a bug track system for CrystalEye (in beta), after a discussion on the CIF processing pipeline (see here, here, here and here).

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  • Feb 5, 2008

    Performance: C, C++, C#, Java, Perl and Python

    Mathieu Fourment (et al.) just published a paper on some performance testing on 6 programming languages in BMC Bioinformatics: A comparison of common programming languages used in bioinformatics (doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-82). The below figure is from the paper, for a sequence alignment exercise (copyright with paper authors, OpenAccess license of journal):

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Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.