the dao of flow

Steven M. Thompson has initiated a petition to make Accelrys‘ GCG and SeqLab available under an open source software. He wants to prevent the loss of these bioinformatics tool sets after Accelrys’ recent decision to stop the support and development of them.

Craig Venter gave a talk at the TED conference this year in which he presented a synthetic biology approach to create an organism that might solve two major problems of mankind: The increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and limited fuel resources. Venter claimed that the project will take further 18 month. The video of [...]

Ivica just created a Firefox toolbar for iTOL which might be handy if you manage your phylogenetic trees with this cool web tool. (Yes, looks like I became the unofficial announcer of new tools etc. from the Bork group) … that wasn’t planned.)

Duncan is hosting the 19th Bio::Blogs issue and wrote down some thoughts about bioengineering. Pedro will take care of the next one that might cover data integration.

Phun – A fun 2D physics sandbox by Emil Ernerfeldt – seems to be an awesome program that can be a black hole for planned working hours. You can draw physical objects and switch on gravity and friction etc. Have a look at the video. It reminds me on the video MIT sketching which showed [...]

For the bio crowd: If you want to be informed about news regarding the web tools STRING (proteins and their interaction) and/or STITCH (protein-chemicals interactions) you should have a look at the blog that Michael set up recently for that purpose.

Lars Juhl Jensen, another member of the Bork group, started his new blog Buried Treasure some days ago. As said in his first posting the main intension is to make some of his scientific loose ends public: My primary goal with this blog is to make my never-to-be-published observations openly available. As I donâ??t plan [...]

Issue #18 of Bio::Blogs is available at Bioinformatics Zen and has some hot links regarding Open Notebook Science and other topics for the bio crowd.