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We used to love watching him blow stuff up on TV. But things are different now.... GrrlScientist has the movie....
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What do computer scientists do anway? Inquiring minds want to know.
Category: Science education
Our new Scibling, Jane, is a real life computer scientist. If you've ever wondered what computer scientists really do during the day, Jane will set you straight (I guess they're...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:10 AM • 0 Comments •
March 28, 2008
It's bad enough to throw your data away
Category: Microbiology
If you're old enough or you've taken microbiology, there's a chance that sometime in your life you heard of Legionaire's disease. This disease was caused a bacteria that inhabited the...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:12 AM • 1 Comments •
March 27, 2008
A beginner's guide to making a phylogenetic tree
Category: phylogeny
I made this video (below the fold) to illustrate the steps involved in making a phylogenetic tree. The basic steps are to: Build a data set Align the sequences Make...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:11 AM • 36 Comments •
March 20, 2008
Oh internet gurus, what's your advice?
Category: Computers and software
Believe it or not, there is the remote possibility that I may get to have some influence in getting a web application built, that I can use in teaching, that...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:10 AM • 12 Comments •
March 19, 2008
How to use Cn3D
Category: molecular structures
A video tutorial on molecular structures.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:37 PM • 1 Comments •
Hey instructors, do you know what kinds of operating systems your students use?
Category: Science education
It's not Linux.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:23 PM • 6 Comments •
March 17, 2008
Starting a new biotech program? Teaching a biotech course?
Category: Science education
Bio-Link is accepting applications for this year's National Summer Fellows forum, June 2-6th, in Berkeley, CA. You can get an application at www.bio-link.org I'll be there, doing some kind of...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:13 PM • 0 Comments •
DNA sequencing errors hit home
Category: Bioinformatics
One of my colleagues has a two part series on FinchTalk (starting today) that discusses uncertainty in measurement and what that uncertainty means for the present and Next Generation DNA...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:05 PM • 3 Comments •
March 16, 2008
Wonderful pictures of Gas Works park
Category: Science Art
Things move off of our entry page pretty quick sometimes. If you missed this post from Bioephemera, go take a look. She has great pictures and a fascinating story about...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:20 PM • 2 Comments •
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