On this page of the software carpentry manual you can find a brief introduction to different software development techniques, including agile and sturdy ones. Which of these deve …

To clarify, I am a biochemist, trained in molecular evolution since undergrad and I changed my particular field of work to large scale phylogenetic analysis in the grad school. S …

What podcasts are the bioinformaticians here listening to that tie in with their work? The most relevant podcast that I know of (the currently even more irregular than normal) C …

It is clear that in Computational Biology there are certain organisations, societies and the like, global and regional, that intend to cater the needs for conferences, networking a …

I think that for a professional is very important to follow blogs focused on his own speciality, it is a good way to learn without too much effort and to stay updated. Which bioinf …

One of the most awful problems in my group is avoiding to rewrite scripts that have been already written by others. Since we have different projects and we work with different data …

I guess the best place would need to: Have a critical mass of scientists Be a world leading site for its reputation in science Have well known projects Good facilties Good pay/We …

This is also a very classic question, however, it can be a very useful discussion for novices which are wishing to work in the bioinformatics field, and have to decide how to organ …

So, you will probably hate me for asking this question here, as there are lot of forum and blog posts on internet about it and it is also a very subjective question. However, it m …

STRING is a database of predicted protein-protein interactions at EMBL. It cluster the results from many sources of protein-protein interactions databases, like Mint, etc.., and it …

GeneOntology is a nice project to provide a standard terminology for genes and gene functions, to help avoid the use of synonyms and wrong spelling when describing a gene. I have …