Groovy is a powerful scripting language that allows you to leverage a large number of Java libraries. This series of articles describes how you can combine Groovy with bioinformatics-related libraries to solve a variety of problems. Traditionally, Perl has been seen as the language of choice for bioinformaticians. More recently, Python has been gaining ground. […]
I’ve been a long-time user of the FireFox browser and the BioBar plugin from EBI. When I switched to Google’s Chrome browser, one of the things I immediately missed were BioBar’s search plugins.Recently I stumbled across a feature in Chrome that allows you to search sites like Wikipedia, and to add your own search plugins.
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Grails’ ease-of-use makes it an ideal framework for rapid application development. In most businesses governed by the simple Time = Money equation, the ability to quickly create a fully functional web application that can be deployed on the Java platform is a no-brainer, even for the non-technical set. However, in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries
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One of the challenges of working in an industry that moves at the speed of light is keeping up with all of the changes. I mentioned to a several friends of mine that I’m a heavy user of Google Reader and we decided to form a Journal Club. A Journal Club is a way for
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Every year the journal Nucleic Acids Research publishes a Database Edition that contains listings for hundreds of bioinformatics-related databases. It’s an invaluable snapshot of the current state-of-the-art databases, and it’s available free of charge under NAR’s Open Access policy. Recently, they added a Web Server edition which describes the web applications currently available. Both editions
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I’m sure Kipling will forgive me for hacking the title of his poem, but I’ve been having a lot of fun recently with Mendeley as part of my ongoing “Free Software for Scientists” blog series. Although Mendeley is not completely free, it’s certainly free to download and use. Mendeley has a tiered pricing plan that
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Over the past two years, the recession has had a profound impact on the pharmaceutical industry. Out of the ashes though new startup opportunities have arisen for scientists with experience in drug discovery. These startups in turn are feeding the ever-diminishing pipelines of big pharma. As with every startup company though, cashflow is always a
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Last year cloud computing has become a major topic of conversation in drug discovery companies. At the San Diego Bioinformatics Forum this year, Sandor Szalma gave a great presentation on how cloud computing was used at his company, Centocor (a division of Johnson and Johnson). Just prior to his talk, BioITWorld featured a article on
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