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 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 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...)

by Paul on February 24, 2009

I love that word. Transmogrified. It sounds like something Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, the writers of the sci-fi comedy series, Red Dwarf, would make up. As in, "Kryten and I were transmogrified into another time (read on...)

by Gandi on February 20, 2009

BioEdit is a biological sequence alignment editor supreme. The author of this software calls it an intuitive multiple document interface with convenient features. What an understatement! At the moment I only use a couple of (read on...)

by Paul on February 3, 2009

Most available heatmap programs I've encountered cost too much, come bundled in a huge application, don't do what I want, or don't offer enough flexibility. In the previous article on heatmaps, I showed how you can use ASAP (read on...)

by Paul on January 27, 2009

Heat maps are a useful way to represent certain types of data; the data are colored by coloring according to the values in them, (e.g. red for high values, yellow for medium and green for low values), providing a powerful visual (read on...)

by Paul on January 8, 2009

For our "fresh new" version of the website, I'll kick off with a series of articles on describing the contents of my professional "toolbox". So, let's open 'er up and see what we get. In this installment, I'll skim the top tray (read on...)

by Bala on November 4, 2008

If you're one of the proud owners of an Ipod touch or an Iphone then there some great apps available for academics that makes life a bit easier. Molecules is an application that allows you to view PDB structure files, yes it's (read on...)

by Bala on June 12, 2008

When you need to see the "big picture" in molecular biology then you need to take a look at the whole genome of the organism that are interested in. From what I've seen, most people don't do this; the general workplan that I've (read on...)