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Fun Mac OS X command: say
Group meetings in the Altman lab often kick off with a Unix or computing tip. These range from examples of built-in but lesser known utilities that make our lives at the command line easier, to...
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Scientific discourse as an epic FAIL
Download now or preview on posterous How to Publish a Scientific Comment2.pdf (42 KB) A post on FriendFeed pointed me to this blog post in Adventures in Ethics and Science discussing a particularly...
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How personal genomics is rocking the boat
I’ve been doing some reading on personal genomics, direct-to-consumer genetic tests, and personalized medicine lately, in an effort to steep myself in the science and issues prior to starting work in...
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New job and curation 101
It’s been several weeks now since I started working at 23andMe, a personal genomics company located in Mountain View, CA. Perhaps not coincidentally, it’s also been several weeks since I last blogged....
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Scripts and hacks for curation
When you curate scientific literature, there are lots of little tasks and procedures and requirements that can all add up into a big inefficient mess if they’re not integrated very well into your...
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In memoriam: Warren DeLano
PyMOL has starred in many journal covers On Tuesday, November 3rd, the scientific community suffered a great loss with the passing of Warren DeLano. Most people know him as the creator of PyMOL, a...
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A brief analysis of commenting at BMC, PLoS, and BMJ
As announced on FriendFeed and Twitter, a writing collaboration between me and the inimitable Cameron Neylon has just been published at PLoS Biology, “Article-level metrics and the evolution of...
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No comment
At the risk of beating the issue to death, I offer yet another post on the question, “why don’t scientists comment on scientific articles?” Previous reflections stood within the larger context of...
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Reflections on ASHG 2010
As conferences go, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting is a pretty big deal. Anyone who’s anyone in human genetics is there, and if you want to be someone you better be there,...
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Get it while it’s hot! 23andMe for $99
You may have already heard the rumors floating around and they’re all true: 23andMe is having another sale — the whole thing for $99! Edit: No discount codes are needed. There’s an instant discount of...
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