'Pollen world of plants'-3
African marigold is one of the species of marigold genus.It’s scientific name is Tagetes erectus.It is also known as Mexican marigold.It is a bisexual flower having both stamen and carpel.It belong...
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On Braitenberg's Vehicles, Compound Polygons, and Evolutionary Developmental Structural Complexity
The discrete evolution of phenotypes and nervous systems can provide much information about the structures that carry forward the evolutionary process. There are also relationships at the interse...
Read ItIs the MinION thumb drive sequencer taking off? Seems so ...
Well, I have been digging around a lot into Nanopore sequencing recently. This started as preparation for a lecture I gave at the Bodega Applied Phylogenetics course a few weeks ago on “The Evoluti...
Read ItStorify wrap up of #PSB16 Session on Computational Microbiology #microbiomes
I made a Storify summary of the Tweets from a workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing that I attended on Tuesday on Computational Microbiology (with a big focus on microbiomes). [<a h...
Read ItMendelian Randomisation: A Minireview
Mendelian randomisation is a technique which, fuelled by the results of GWA studies, can be used to determine causal relationships between intermediate phenotypes such as metabolite levels and outc...
Read ItYou Don't Get to 2000 Open Data Sets Without Making a Few Friends – or: How I Got to be Called the Mark Zuckerberg of Open Source Genetics
What Have I Done?! There are many firm believers in the different kinds of openness: open access, open source, open data, open science, open you-name-it. And at least to me, some of the most inter...
Read ItMolecular Evolution and Functional Divergence of Chitinase Gene Family in Hevea brasiliensis Genome
Hevea brasiliensis, the largest commercial source of natural rubber, is known to be invaded by multiple fungal pathogens, affecting the global rubber production resulting in severe economic losses....
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BioJS2Galaxy - A step by step guide
By Benedikt Rauscher, Benjamen White – 12/07/2015. To encourage the use of BioJavaScript (BioJS) visualisations in Galaxy we decided to create this simple step by step guide on how to use @MrGreeni...
Read ItSome comments on Pachter's P value prize
In late May, Lior Pachter posted a blog entitled Pachter’s P-value prize, offering a cash prize for providing a probability calculation (P value) based on a “justifiable” null model for the claim o...
Read ItNot-quite alignments: Salmon, Kallisto and Efficient Quantification of RNA-Seq data
This past week was the 28th annual Biology of Genomes (BoG) meeting at Cold Spring Harbor. While I wasn’t able to attend the full meeting, I was able to attend on Wed. (the ability to be local and...
Read ItCloning forever
No design needed! Over the last six months, I spent considerable time and efforts trying to engage biologists in discussions about the design of expression vectors. My goal has been to better under...
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