Archive for February, 2009

Bio-Mirrors: To be, or not to be

Yesterday I got email from SBML mailing list about release of BioModels Database’s first Mirror site at Caltech. I am very much surprise, especially why BioModels database need a mirror site, consider the fact- size of whole BioModels database is [...]


Visual analytics: Aimless wandering or Systematic data exploration

With great power comes great responsibility. One of my favorite quote from movie Spider-Man which was sourced by Stan Lee, famous American writer and editor. After working with visual analytics for three years I realized that this quote is utterly [...]


Database : A New Oxford Journal About Biological Curation and Databases

Learning from the success of Nucleic Acid Research (NAR) database and server editions, Oxford university press has recently launched a new open access journal, Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation under leadership of computational biologist David Landsmann who [...]


A cleaner and elegant way to create tables in blogger

Well before you read this post, you may have a look on the live demonstration of this approach A Blogger’s Guide to Systems Biology-1 Comparison of CellML and SBML 30+ Blogs about Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics Programming Creation of tables is [...]


Comparison of CellML and SBML

Features CellML SBML Structure (model components/elements) import, units, component, group, connection listOfFunctionDefinitions, listOfUnitDefinitions, listOfCompartmentTypes, listOfSpeciesTypes, listOfCompartments, listOfSpecies, listOfParameters, listOfInitialAssignments, listOfRules, listOfConstraints, listOfReaction, listOfEvents Application CellML framework is generic. Currently it is used for multiscale biological modelling , systems biology, synthetic [...]


Pair programming and biological curation

Image via Wikipedia Manual curation of peer reviewed biomedical articles demands utmost human intervention. Curation process is highly erroneous, especially when curators have to accomplish mammoth targets. In one of the recent studies published in Nature Methods, it was reveled [...]


30+ Blogs about Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics Programming

Blog Author Details Langugae Open.nfo bioinformatics, linux, open-source software, open science Bioinformatics Zen Michael Barton best practices for bioinformatics programming and software development Genedrift Paulo Nuin a step-by-step guide to create Python applications in bioinformatics Python Blue Collar Bioinformatics Brad [...]


Tracking Individual Blood Cells

This is another interesting work form L. Mahadevan group (read more about him). They have developed a new computational approach that can differentiate individual cells in dense suspension of soft non-brownian red blood cells, and track their spatio-temporal dynamics as [...]


Playing with Blogger Post Title and Meta Tags

Are you looking for customization of title and meta tags (description and keywords) for your blogger posts, or you want to have different title/meta tags for main page and posts, then here is a simple solution- 1) Go to Layout->Edit [...]


Fisheye Perspective- About my interest, science and life

I am changing the title name of the blog, now onwards it will appear as “Fisheye Perspective” with a tag line “A natural perspective with extreme wide angle”, which is basically inspired by my previous post Circular/Radial Visualizations in Bioinformatics-2. [...]