Monthly Archives: March 2008
Book Review: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, was written by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane and published by O’Reilly in May, 2004. I purchased this book in 2005 when I was doing some consulting for a microarray … Continue reading
Genome of the Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Laccaria bicolor
Martin et al. published a paper, “The genome of Laccaria bicolor provides insights into mycorrhizal symbiosis”, in the 06 March 2008 issue of Nature. The paper (PubMed record) is accompanied by a News and Views article, “Fungal symbiosis unearthed”, by … Continue reading
The Personal Genome (2)
On 04 March 2008 I wrote a post about the personal genome. In the days since that post, I have expanded my reading about this topic, and I have found two blogs that cover personal genomes/personalized medicine very well. The … Continue reading
Understanding Evolutionary Trees
Today I read “Understanding Evolutionary Trees”, by T. Ryan Gregory, the author of the Genomicron blog. Dr. Gregory mentioned his paper in his blog post, “Evolutionary Trees for Darwin Day”, and the paper appears in the new journal Evolution: Education … Continue reading
More Free Rice
Six days ago, I discovered freerice.com. My wife, who has a bigger vocabulary than I have, achieved a perfect vocabulary level of 55 and sent me a screen shot to prove it: One secret to success is to set up … Continue reading
Free Rice With Cyanobacteria
I learned about the Free Rice web site today. The object is to “learn free vocabulary and give free rice.” The premise is simple. The site presents a word and four possible meanings, and you click on the meaning you … Continue reading
Re: Notes to a Young Computational Biologist
This is a story of how clueless I can be, but how sometimes, given a sufficient number of opportunities, I can become clueful again. On 13 March 2007, Bosco Ho wrote a post entitled “Notes to a Young Computational Biologist” … Continue reading
