Monthly archives: May, 2011

HDF5 + XML = SDCubes

A paper on data organization just came out in Nature Methods (Millard et al. 2011, commentary by Swedlow et al.). They believe, as do I, that using XML schema to organize data is…



Destroying the curve

So you’re feeling pretty good about the rodent virtual reality system (Hölscher et al. 2005) you have up and running. You’ve got it all… the spherical treadmill with motion tracking feeding back into a…



Online tools of questionable usefulness

While on the Gnotero page (a Python app for accessing refs from Zotero, a Firefox plugin-based citation manager, in case you’re wondering), I noticed that…



Another blog added

Xcorr has some nice posts on coding, Plexon systems, analysis, and whatnot. It was just added to the Recommended Blogs section on the right. Some example posts:
A Plexon C++ API on 64-bit Linux



Idex CVI Melles Griot

Acquisition news. In May 2007, CVI bought Melles Griot for $60 million. CVI was itself owned by Norwest Equity Partners. The new CVI Melles Griot then promptly …



2p cross sections for fluorescent proteins

On the off chance that you missed it, Drobizhev et al. published a bunch of 2p cross sections for fluorescent proteins.

Earlier:
2p cross sections
More 2p cross…



Data’s killer app

On the topic of the recent app post, I’ve been thinking about an old blog post from Peter Keane. The of his post is, “What is Data’s Killer App?” In it, he pondered the problem of data management.

After a not entirely apt analogy to HTML, Keane suggested that there is no killer app…



Apps

You probably caught the article about the group who runs their laser-trapping experiments using an app they wrote for iOS on the iPad. This sparked a commentary about apps in science. What about some other apps for handheld and tablet computing?

Reference organization

In general, when it comes…