general · science –
A post I wrote ended up on the front page of nodalpoint.org. I liked that, even though it may not seem a lot to many: at least it shows that some of my concerns are shared with other people in the scientific community.
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final fantasy xi –
The title of the post pretty much says it all. I’ve finally been able to obtain this piece of artifact armor+1 after searching for the last item I needed for about five months.
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As you can see I have a new heading, courtesy of Melissa, featuring Saber from Fate/stay Night. Aside that, updates on this blog will continue to be slow for a little while, as I will try to rush and finish S.T.E.A.L. at last this Sunday.
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general · linux · science –
In the past two days I’ve written a simple annotator program, that given an input list of RefSeq genes, automatically determines the relevant Entrez Gene IDs and annotates them using the flat files provided by the NCBI. A direct conversion was not possible due to limitations in Biopython’s parsers, but I managed to use the GenBank parser to identify and extract the references to the Gene IDs (and putting them in a list).
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general · science –
Since recently (thanks to my brother) I got a new cellular phone with better capabilities, photo-wise, I decided to take a few photos of my workplace. I changed office a while ago, now I’m located on the first floor of the building, sharing the office with 5 other people: Raoul, Michele, Giorgio, Roberta and Alessandro. This photo shows my current computer setup:
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general · science –
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology is having a special issue on text mining for biology. My boss wants to publish something there, and asked if I and a colleague could work on that. I’ll probably focus on evaluation methods, since I’m not an expert in text mining or language processing.
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science –
Recently, I’ve been in need to retrieve some records regarding renal cell carcinoma referenced in papers by Zhao et al. and Higgins et al. The records of the former were hosted on NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus, while the latter records were uploaded to EBI’s ArrayExpress database. Getting data from others and using it for your own analysis is called meta-analysis, and it’s often used to validate methods and algorithms with different data sets.
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