Viruses

"""If you put every virus particle on Earth together in a row, they would form a line 10 million light-years long. """

That seems like rather a lot of viruses.

discover magazine article

Bio-ontologies

A blog post about the Nature Biotech article that criticized bio-ontologies, featuring our very own Mark Musen.

Via postgenomic.

nodalpoint

New metablog thing

I don't know what it is exactly, but I like it.

Postgenomic aggregates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data.

postgenomic

Uniquifying a list in Python

I keep needing to do this all the time (given a list, remove all the duplicates). So a one-liner:
dict().fromkeys(yourlist).keys()

Advice for getting published

10 simple rules from Phil Bourne over at PLOS Comp Bio. They are mostly common sense, but make for some useful reading anyway.

Trends in Machine Learning

Some graphs showing trends in the use of SVMs/naive Bayes/expert systems etc.
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Similar for bioinformatics.
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