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Today was the last day of the Marco Island conference, so I won't be hammering Twitter again for quite a while. The afternoon session f...

Last night I finally got my paws on a paper which started out on a frustrating tack. Last week, a flurry of news items heralded a new appro...

The Marco Island Advances in Genome Biology and Technology , or AGBT (or just Marco Island) conference started up today. Whatever weather t...

The Scientist has a profile of Aaron Ciechanover , who shared the Nobel Prize for work on the proteasome. His Nobel-cited work began in his...

Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal carried an articl e addressing the growing interest in finding health issues related to being a ca...

I recently found out that I've received a summer undergraduate intern slot. I have a soft spot for summer internships -- my own was a g...

My recent piece on citrus seems to have struck a chord, based on the multiple comments and the fact that GenomeWeb's blog picked up on ...

I've been on a citrus kick at work lately, trying out different varieties I picked up at one of the adjacent grocery stores (curiously, ...

A year ago (almost exactly) I wrote an entry taking to task a paper analyzing protein kinases in the draft chimpanzee genome . After writin...

Last week at this time I was surviving a terrible electrical storm -- tremendous cracks and crackles all around me. Luckily, it was just th...

I can't believe how thrilled I was to get a run-time error today! Because that was the first sign I had gotten past the Scala roadblock...

Well, I've taken the plunge -- yet another programming language. I've written before about this. It's also a common question on...

The Sanger Institute's paper in Science describing the sequencing of multiple MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) genomes...

My post yesterday was successful at narrowing down the identity of the mystery creature to a spider of the genus Araneus. Another victory ...

As a youth, I was fortunate enough to spend four summers working as a camp counselor. Three of those were spent in the Nature Department, p...

Illumina announced their new HiSeq 2000 instrument today. There are some great summaries at Genetic Future and PolitGenomics ; read both f...

Friday's Wall Street Journal had a piece in the back opinion section (which has items about culture & religion and similar stuff) d...

I got a phone call today from someone asking permission to suggest me as a reviewer of a manuscript this person was about to submit. For fu...