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- Reports from a couple places say Pettite has gone to the Astros. Stay tuned. Follow here for updates.... |
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- My SE t610 arrived this morning and it is great. I initiated the process of transferring my existing number to the new phone, but ETA is uncertain. In the meantime, I have setup call forwarding from my old phone. Unfortunately, voicemail functionality is questionable at best. I will likely write a review of the phone after sufficient testing. |
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- My SE t610 arrived this morning and it is great. I initiated the process of transferring my existing number to the new phone, but ETA is uncertain. In the meantime, I have setup call forwarding from my old phone. Unfortunately, voicemail functionality is questionable at best. I will likely write a review of the phone after sufficient testing. |
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- ESPN.com - MLB - Neyer: No stopping the Braves (Suggested by Creg.) Neyer before the 2003 season: The Braves are... |
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- The B.C. Ferry & Marine Workers Union that represents 4,300 full time and casual employees at the recently privatized BC Ferries Services Inc. gave the company 72 hours strike notice December 4th, 2003, prompting the company to panic ferry users there could be a strike during the Christmas holidays.The union hand-delivered its notice to BC Ferries Services four hours after mediator-brokered negotiations for a new contract ended at about noon on D... |
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- quote:posted by Slave:if the union defies the back to work order, i say the gov't should randomly fire 50 workers an hour until they go back to work. and not rehire them.it is an essential service for thousands. |
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Work Rights (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Work Rights is run by the CLC and they want to steer well clear of internal union politics. IMO, that makes it a less interesting website, but whatever.I co-moderate a "Labour and Consumption" discussion forum on http://www.rabble. |
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- does he use them on the bass drums? |
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BLAST (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Basic Local Alignment Search Tool; retrieve sequences similar to your query. |
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GeneComber (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - GeneComber is an ab initio gene prediction tool developed at the UBC Bioinformatics Centre. It integrates results from two externally developed gene finders and operates on the premise that if these two gene finders agree on a prediction, we can be more confident in the prediction. |
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GeneMark (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Family of gene prediction programs using Markov models; particularly good for prokaryotic gene finding. |
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GenomeScan (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Incorporates protein similarity information when predicting genes; based in part on GENSCAN. |
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GENSCAN (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Identification of complete gene structures in genomic DNA. |
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Glimmer (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov Modeler; this prokaryote-gene finding tool is the primary microbial gene finder used at TIGR; free (including source code) with registration for non-commercial use. |
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HMMgene (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Prediction of vertebrate and C. elegans genes. |
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ORF Finder (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Finds all open reading frames in a sequence. |
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Artemis (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool; allows visualization of sequence features and results of analyses within the context of the sequence and its 6-frame translation; available for UNIX, Windows and Macintosh. |
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BoxShade (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Printing and shading of multiple alignment files. |
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EMBOSS (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Diverse suite of tools for sequence analysis; many programs analagous to GCG; context-sensitive help for each tool. |
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GeneDoc (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Multiple sequence alignment editor, analyser and shading utility for Windows. |
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GRAIL (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - GRAIL is a suite of tools designed to provide analysis and putative annotation of DNA sequences both interactively and through the use of automated computation. |
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- A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car. |
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ReadSeq (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Sequence format conversion; includes GenBank, EMBL, GCG, FASTA, ASN.1, Phylip and others. |
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VISTA (Dec 10 2003 19:59 GMT) - Set of tools for comparative genomics; allows visualization of long DNA sequence alignments from 2 or more species with annotation information; capable of combining transcription factor binding site database search with comparative sequence analysis. |
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- Negotiators crafted new rules Wednesday to counter the effects of greenhouse gases on the environment as U.N. officials, citing disasters like last summer's deadly European heat wave, pressed for more vigorous efforts to fight global warming. The progress came on the 10th day of a U.N. |
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- Owen Massey writes "The British Library has attempted to quantify its contribution to the UK's economy, according to this story in the Financial Times: the BL claims a return of 4.4 times its tax funding." |
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- Lee Hadden points to a subscription-only article about the $100 million bequest left by heiress Ruth Lilly to Poetry magazine. The generous gift has rocked the magazine's world in more way than one. Staffers are burdened with more meetings that usually accustomed to by lovers of poetry. On the upside, contributor payments went up from $2 to $6 per line. More info here at the non-subscription Indianapolis Star. |
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- The New York Times has announced the winners of its 2003 Librarian Awards. Awarded for outstanding public service, this is the first year that the paper has given awards to librarians outside of the New York tri-state area. Lots of familiar names and faces here! Congratulations to all. |
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- Sabrina Pacifici writes "Virtual Tours and Law Library Websites is a new one by Rhonda Hankins in which she reviews how academic law library websites are increasingly offering visitors the option of a "virtual tour," and illustrates effective applications of this technology. To date no definitive studies on the costs and benefits of virtual tours have been done, and no comprehensive analysis of the usages and missions of virtual tours at academic law library Web sites in the United States exists. Even usability expert Jakob Nielsen has conducted only one in-depth user test of a virtual tour. " |
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- Fang-Face writes "There are two stories about P2P file sharing and RIAA's reaction to the practice. One of them, posted to the First Amendment Center on 29 Nov, reports on University of Florida's action in preventing P2P downloading of copyrighted songs. The plaint in that article by civil liberties groups is that academe is acting as an agent for the recording industry. The second article, from NBC17.com on 02 Dec, is about the ACLU defending a so far unidentified student from RIAA. |
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- Ozzy Osbourne is doing well after suffering a broken neck vertebra and other injuries in an all-terrain vehicle accident, doctors said Wednesday, and they hope to take him off a ventilator so he can breathe unaided. |
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- President Bush will grant an interview at the White House next week to ABC News' Diane Sawyer, the network said Tuesday. |
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- Roxio may license codec. |
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- Web-based contig assembly. |
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- UNIX-based, base-calling, sequence assembly and finishing tools used by most genome sequence centres; free for non-commercial use. |
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- UNIX-based tools for sequence assembly, mutation detection and sequence analysis; free for non-commercial use. Note that Staden development and support have ceased due to lack of funding, despite widespread use. |
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