Monthly Archives: March 2008

Book Review: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Conrad Halling

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 →

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Genome of the Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Laccaria bicolor

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Conrad Halling

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 →

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The Personal Genome (2)

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Conrad Halling

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 →

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Understanding Evolutionary Trees

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Conrad Halling

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 →

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More Free Rice

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Conrad Halling

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 →

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Free Rice With Cyanobacteria

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Conrad Halling

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 →

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Re: Notes to a Young Computational Biologist

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Conrad Halling

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 →

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