I’m pretty sure most of us have seen a version of this already, but it’s worth pointing out another formulation. Take one inch, and let it equal two million years. What you end up with is a history of life on Earth, 135 feet wide. Scroll all the way to the right to see where…
How long have we been looking at coding sequences? And how long have we known that certain codons get used more than others? Back in Cambridge I even wrote a script to optimize codon usage to maximize yield of expressed proteins in bacteria. Turns out
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Garry Peterson is an ecologist at the intriguingly-named Stockholm Resilience Centre, looking at how we a might effectively manage the environment; not simply for the state of the ecosystem itself but also for our continued well-being as inhabitants of that ecosystem. He also writes for Faculty of 1000, having been a Faculty Member since January…
While trolling through the new, shiny beta F1000 site (shh! I’m not supposed to tell you about that yet) I noticed that a paper from way back in September last year is still up there on our top ten lists. This was a commentary in J Neurosci saying, among other things, that the time has…
While trolling through the new, shiny beta F1000 site (shh! I’m not supposed to tell you about that yet) I noticed that a paper from way back in September last year is still up there on our top ten lists. This was a commentary in J Neurosci saying, among other things, that the time has…
Epigenetic regulation is the new black, or at least charcoal. Modifying chromatin
One of my laments concerning the internet age is that not enough publishers use high quality metadata to identify their content. By metadata, I mean hidden parts of content which seek to describe that content. So metadata can be loosely defined as data which is explicitly concerned with data. In essence it tells us what…
Epigenetic regulation is the new black, or at least charcoal. Modifying chromatin
One of my laments concerning the internet age is that not enough publishers use high quality metadata to identify their content. By metadata, I mean hidden parts of content which seek to describe that content. So metadata can be loosely defined as data which is explicitly concerned with data. In essence it tells us what…
