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AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
Eschewing obfuscation ever since Morgan.
April 28, 2006
Category: Phylogenetics
Over at my old site, I lamented the apparent death of distance based tree building algorithms. Just as all of life on earth can be divided into three domains, phylogenetic methods can be split into three groups: distance based, maximum...
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Category: Admin
Via Janet comes the ABC meme. To learn a bit about me, click through to below the fold....
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April 26, 2006
Category: Molecular Evolution
Ian Musgrave has a good summary of genes appearing from non-coding DNA (ORFans) on the Panda's Thumb. I have written about ORFans here and here (dude's gotta link to himself sometimes). Ian's post is targeted at some claims made by...
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Category: Science Education
If you know anything about bioinformatics, you know that programmers love to come up with clever names for their applications. NCBI's BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) programs are some of the most used tools, but behind every successful program...
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April 25, 2006
Category: Science Education
Via BioCurious comes this article on ten "science question[s] every high school graduate should be able to answer." Read the list -- most of the questions are bullshit. Ok, they aren't bullshit, but they are trivia. "What percentage of the...
Posted by RPM at 8:32 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Molecular Evolution
Bora has been pushing the idea of publishing original research (hypotheses, data, etc) on science blogs. This post is part of a series exploring the evolution of a duplicated gene in the genus Drosophila. Links to the previous posts can...
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April 24, 2006
Category: Molecular Evolution
Bora has been pushing the idea of publishing original research (hypotheses, data, etc) on science blogs. As a responsible researcher, I would need to obtain permission from any collaborators (including my advisor) before published anything we have been working on...
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Category: Phylogenetics
Via nodalpoint comes this UPGMA tree of sequence alignment algorithms from this paper. The first thing that comes to mind is that there are way too many sequence alignment methods. The second, it's kinda cool to see one method used...
Posted by RPM at 12:27 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Population Genetics
If you read evolgen, you've probably been following the race riots that Wilkins started. It's pretty much died down now, and it was more a debate about semantics rather than an actual scientific disagreement. This is usually the case in...
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April 23, 2006
Category: Admin
Otherwise known as a choloroplast: The Chloroplast You scored 46 Industriousness, 54 Centrality, and 23 Causticity! You're the Chloroplast! Most of the Earth's energy comes from the chloroplast's ability to capture the energy of the sun and fix cabon dioxide...
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