by Christopher on February 5, 2010

Where did bio begin for you? That intriguing question has been the central focus of an interesting experience I just had. How this all started It began on a Saturday morning. After I woke up and fed my cat, and before making my (read on...)

by Nick on October 8, 2009

In 2007, I wrote a couple of articles on the best free software for molecular biologists on Mac and PC. One of the highlights of those lists was a fantastic cross-platform for in silico DNA cloning, sequence analysis and (read on...)

by Suzanne on September 21, 2009

qPCR is a technique used daily in most labs, but the first step, designing your primers, can be the biggest obstacle to even getting started. Without a good pair of primers, you can't start asking the real questions and (read on...)

by Johannes on August 28, 2009

After Peter's Introduction to Linux, those of you brave enough to accept the challenge will now have Linux installed on your machine so today I want to highlight to you some of the wonderful free software that is available for (read on...)

by Peter on August 20, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, Nick tried to convince us that we should all be using Macs. But why would you want to use a Mac (or a PC) when you could have an operating system that: Is free Does not slow down after a while and limit (read on...)

by Nick on August 12, 2009

If you have ever looked closely at Pubmed, you might have noticed that it's not easy to search for all publications by a single author, to see everything that your collaborator has published or to see what the top people in your (read on...)

by Nick on July 22, 2009

Macs are great and there are a lot of reasons I recommend them to anyone who asks my opinion on which computer they should buy. But for bioscientists, perhaps the best reason to buy a Mac is summed up by one (read on...)

by Nick on July 6, 2009

Way back in October 2007, I wrote an article on 10 Firefox add-ons for cell and molecular biologists. I think Firefox is a brilliant browser and it's open source add-on contributors make it more useful every day. Apparently, (read on...)

by Carrie on June 25, 2009

After quite a long hiatus (which included a conference in Hawaii, whoo hoo!), I’m back to highlight a cool and relatively new search engine for scientific literature that is going to make you squeal with glee (ok, it (read on...)

by Gandi on March 27, 2009

I couldn't do without iTunes to store and sort all of my music according genre, artist, album and even fetch the album art from the net. And I always wished there was something like this to sort the gazillion publications that I (read on...)