http://biowhat.com Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:54:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Despite my lack of commitment to this site, it seems that I'm still getting comments every now and again. And I appreciate the interest. It really helps me realize the potential interest in the kind of things I've written about here. Most recently, I got a comment from Sudhang ... http://biowhat.com/2009/04/04/what-books-would-be-good-for-self-study-in-bioinformatics/ What's been going on here you may be asking. Well I've been pretty much swamped with my job at INCOGEN. I have every intention to keep this site going but it just has not been a huge priority. What we may have going on here, though is the addition ... http://biowhat.com/2008/11/11/whats-going-on-with-biowhat/ After doing a fresh install of OSX Leopard on my Mac and having to re-familiarize with some of my Biostatistics/Microarray education background it was time do a fresh install of R on my machine. R is a freely available statistical programming language modeled after S programming language. Matthew Keller, a ... http://biowhat.com/2007/12/17/rrrrrrrr/ This is my third MIA post and I'd like to think that taking time to finish my Master of Bioinformatics degree, get a job, move, and get engaged would be suitable excuses for my lack of posting. But who knows, maybe I'm just not cut out to be a ... http://biowhat.com/2007/12/11/mia-the-trilogy/ I'm in the process of developing an application that utilizes information from protein-protein interaction databases. One specific database I am working with is BIND, the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database. As my application will be looking at a large number of genes I had to figure out ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/21/bind-and-soap/ As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm currently working on a new look for the site. This entire week I was constantly changing the design. Realizing that I may be causing some inconvenience to my readers, I decided to go "old school" and set up a local ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/17/lamp-and-wordpress/ biowhat.com is officially validated! This all started with me trying fix my sidebar for IE browsers <= 6.0. For some reason the sidebar drops to the bottom of the page after all the content. While searching for a solution, I ran into a site that inspects the code of ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/15/a-validated-biowhatcom/ Last week, I attended the Systems Biology Summit in Richmond, Virginia. The opening session in the Summit was entitled "the Systems Biology Challenge in 21st Century Biomedical Research". It consisted of speakers from the Research Institute, the National Institute of Health, Academia, and the Pharmaceutical industry providing their ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/12/2007-systems-biology-summit/ As covered by Nature magazine a couple weeks ago, the full genome of James D Watson, one of the fathers of DNA, has been sequenced. The article also describes how Watson's DNA sequence revealed his predisposition to cancer. This revelation brings on several important questions. Will people ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/11/genetic-discrimination/ Sorry to be MIA once again. I got busy with wrapping up my course work, fending off hackers from this site and attending last week's Systems Biology Summit (more on this in a follow up post). But besides that, I was privileged enough to be asked to contribute ... http://biowhat.com/2007/06/10/mia-once-again/