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 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 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 Nick on March 10, 2009

If you are looking for Omics software, then I suspect the G6G Directory of Omics and Intelligent Software need be your only stop. From the name it will come as no surprise that this website is a directory of Omics and AI (read on...)

by Carrie on March 3, 2009

Avast, me hearties, I’m back with Part II of our exploration of the HuGE Navigator. To get up to speed, be sure to check out Part I. In Part II I’m going to go over the HuGEtools, which are used to mine the human (read on...)

by Carrie on February 18, 2009

Ahoy mateys! At my workplace we’ve recently become EXTREMELY excited about a resource called the HuGE Navigator. It’s so great that it’s going to take me a couple of articles to highlight its features. Hop (read on...)

by Suzanne on February 17, 2009

As a scientist in academia or industry, you spend a large portion of your time looking up and reading research papers. What if instead of printing out piles of papers and taking them home to read all weekend, you could click on a (read on...)

by Carrie on January 26, 2009

Since you’re a Bitesize Bio reader, you’re well aware that there is an abundance of both broad and specialized bioinformatics tools freely available for researchers—if you know where and how to find (read on...)

by Carrie on January 14, 2009

Back in October, Nick wrote about the scientific literature searching resource GoPubMed. Today I want to introduce all of you to another rocking PubMed search engine called ClusterMed. Freely provided by Vivisimo, Inc. (read on...)