by Nick on March 10, 2008

If you regularly use online DNA sequence manipulation programs, your life might be about to get just a little easier. At Bitesize Bio, we were becoming tired of jumping from site to site to get the sequence manipulation tools we (read on...)

by Carrie on March 5, 2008

Do you *really* know what you’re doing when you search for articles in PubMed? Are you familiar with Boolean operators? What does �MeSH� mean to you? Can you locate (and use) the Limits tab? History? (read on...)

by Bala on March 4, 2008

Google reader is one the weapons available in an academic's arsenal to combat information overload in the Internet era. Part of research involves keeping oneself informed of the development happening in one's own field as well (read on...)

by Dan on February 11, 2008

In fields describable as functional or experimental biology, one tool that could be both useful and beautiful is a digital atlas of gene expression patterns in a representative mammal during development. That's just what (read on...)

by Dan on January 9, 2008

I recently caught wind of Openlearn, at Open University, which is a UK university that is dedicated to distance learning. Apparently started in 1969, and hosting part-time students who will received real degrees, the OU's (read on...)

by Dan on December 17, 2007

Wikipedia gets quite a bit of attention, and the student of the molecular biological sciences regularly needs a more in-depth information resource. There's Bruce Alberts et al.'s Molecular Biology of the Cell, Harvey Lodish et (read on...)

by Nick on December 10, 2007

When I was writing up my PhD thesis I was paranoid about data backup. Years of hard work - pictures, data-files, notes, publication lists not to mention the thesis manuscript itself - all stored on one hard drive. Copying onto (read on...)

by Nick on November 21, 2007

I just came across an extremely nice piece of plasmid mapping and annotation software that I'd like to share with you. PlasMapper is a web-based application, created by staff from the University of Alberta, that automatically (read on...)

by Nick on October 22, 2007

Podcasts are great. I listen to podcasts every day during my commute and find them a great way to pick up information, whether it's to learn about a new subject, brush up on something I have studied before or keep up with the (read on...)

by Nick on October 4, 2007

Addgene is a non-profit plasmid repository that stores and distributes plasmids for academic labs. It's great if you work in an academic lab and they happen to have your plasmid - drop them an order and get your plasmid in the (read on...)