In-Depth Review, Part 1 of 5: “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” by James...
As a specialized field, Bioinformatics is rather young. It can be difficult to find universities which teach bioinformatics. Bioinformatics can refer to many different types of tasks — from using...
View ArticleIn-Depth Review, Part 2 of 5: “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” by James...
My Part 1 of 5 review of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, left off at Chapter 8, just before Tisdall explains associative arrays, gene expression, FASTA files, genomic...
View Article“SynBioSS: The Synthetic Biology Modeling Suite”
SynBioSS (Synthetic Biology Software Suite) is a suite of software for the modeling and simulation of synthetic genetic constructs. SynBioSS utilizes the registry of standard biological parts, a...
View ArticleIn-Depth Review, Part 3 of 5: “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” by James...
In my previous write-ups of Part 1 and Part 2, I traced the Perl code and examples in the first half of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, highlighting different approaches...
View ArticleComputational Biology for Discovering Protein Function – as of 2008
“The vast majority of known proteins have not yet been characterized experimentally, and there is very little that is known about their function.” [1] A paper just published (Nov 2008) in PLoS...
View ArticlePlay Fold.it, the “Tetris-On-Steroids” game that solves protein folding
“Protein folding” is what again? It’s this: Foldit (curiously, at the web address: “fold.it”). And it’s fun to play. Addictive, really. Check out the picture: After I had been playing a while, my...
View ArticleStanford University: Programmable Microfluidics (2007) – Video
October 3, 2007 lecture by Bill Thies for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Bill Thies provides an overview of microfluidic technologies from a computer science perspective,...
View ArticleApple iPhone 3.0 as next generation Biomedical device
Apple’s developer preview today, of iPhone 3.0 software, included the interesting news of support for external accessories, either connected through the physical docking connector or through Bluetooth...
View ArticleDon’t Train the Biology Robot: Have the Machine Read the Protocol and...
Imagine reading these kinds of instructions and performing such a task for a few hours: “Resuspend pelleted bacterial cells in 250 µl Buffer P1 and transfer to a micro-centrifuge tube. Ensure that...
View ArticlePlaying with the $100K Robots for Biology Automation
The Tecan Genesis Workstation 200: It’s an industrial benchtop robot for liquid handling with multiple arms for tray handling and pipetting. The robot’s operations are complex, so an integrated...
View Article3G Cellphone as Biotech Tool: “Cellular Phone Enabled Non-Invasive Tissue...
A recent paper in PLoS ONE describes a diagnostic system which uses a common 3G cellphone with bluetooth to assist in point-of-care measurement of tissues, from tissue samples previously taken, with...
View ArticleSoftware for Biohackers
Some open source software collections of biology interest are noted here. I’ll update this list as time goes on. If you would like to have your project listed too, leave a comment with all the fields …...
View ArticleMore on Bio-lab Automation – Software for Controlling FIAlab Devices for...
Perl software to control lab syringe pump and valve device, for biology automation, initial version finished today. Works great. Next, need to add the network code, it can be controlled remotely and...
View ArticleAdd Streaming Video to any Bio-lab!
Combining an inexpensive (under $15) USB webcam with free VLC media player software, it is simple to add password-protected internet streaming video for remote users to any lab. VLC includes the...
View Article“ELISA Redux” 96-Well Plate Cryptography Challenge
The publication GEN is running a contest, with $1,500 plus fancy biotechnology equipment as the prize, for the first one who can decode the cryptographic message hidden in this 96-well plate: Register...
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