Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that Facebook is gaslighting users into believing that visiting the web is dangerous or threatening. In this post I intend to not only document the practices which enable this attack, but to also propose a remedy. Ed. note: When Anil refers to "this site...
November, 21 2011 • • 0 Faves
Servers BASys - performs automated, in-depth annotation of bacterial genomic (chromosomal and plasmid) sequences. It accepts raw DNA sequence data and an optional list of gene identification information and provides extensive textual and hyperlinked image output. BASys uses more than 30 programs to determine nearly 60 annotation subfields for each gene, including gene/protein name, GO function, COG function, possible paralogues and orthologues, molecular weight, isoelectric point, operon structure...
November, 20 2011 • • 0 Faves
In Resources Responsive Web Design Templates and Frameworks Posted by Henry Jones on Nov 3, 2011 | 14 Comments inShare127 Eventually, we’ll all stop talking about responsive web design – not because it will go away, but because it will become what’s expected...
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A sense of bewronging April 2, 2011 in Art, Business, Personal, Social | 41 comments “Social networks” are getting out of control. And I don’t mean their control. I mean your control and mine. Here’s an image to keep in mind while you read the rest of this post: The calf is you or me. The cow is just one of our many social networks. Here’s how the situation looks from my browser… I have 840 contacts on Facebook. I won’t call them friends, though some of them are...
November, 18 2011 • • 0 Faves
Background The core libraries for PHAST and several initial programs (including phyloFit, exoniphy, and phastCons) were developed between 2002 and 2004 as part of Adam Siepel's dissertation work in David Haussler's group at UC Santa Cruz. Since that time, several new programs have been added, various improvements to the libraries have been made, and the user base has gradually expanded from a small group of close collaborators to several hundred people with diverse research interests. As of 2006, the...
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easyDAS Quick Start Guide easyDAS in a web application to create DAS sources. Biological data can be uploaded to easyDAS in various formats including GFF and Tabular files and a new DAS source will be automatically created. This source can then be used in any of the available DAS clients such as Ensembl, Dasty and registered to the DAS registry so anyone can use it. Content How to access easyDAS Anonymous vs Registered Users How to create a source Supported Formats More...
November, 16 2011 • • 0 Faves
Videos Watch these movies and see what the members of the organizing committee have to say about this symposium. 11/15/2011 Video Presentation 11/15/2011 Philipp Bucher: “Computational Promoter Analysis in the Era of Ultra-High-Throughput Sequencing” 11/15/2011 Brendan Frey: “The new and improved splicing code” 11/15/2011 Mark Gerstein: “Annotating non-coding regions of the genome”...
November, 16 2011 • • 0 Faves
Knowledge@Wharton Law and Public Policy Research Article View Article on Knowledge@Wharton Mobile To End Poverty, What Works, What Doesn't and Why: A Conversation with the Authors of 'Poor Economics' Published: November 09, 2011 in Knowledge@Wharton Share this Article...
November, 14 2011 • • 0 Faves
This is part two in a series about what has worked for me during a year of busy academic travelling. The First Great Western trains in the UK now have in-seat entertainment! Part 2: Getting There and Being There.In this post I’m going to cover plane (and train) travel, exploiting your accommodation, and your “kit”. For the previous post: Part 1: Preparing For The Trip.[Updated 23/10/2011] 1. Don’t Write Your Talk on the Plane Mrs Jones While it’s true that you can get a surprising amount of work done while...
November, 13 2011 • • 0 Faves