Get the computation done
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Programming that happens in labs is typically rushed and sloppy. The goal is to get the job done right, and, almost as…
Make MATLAB text you
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Patrick Mineault covered this back in November in his always interesting xcorr blog.
Using some small code…
Photoswitchable GECI
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Many red fluorescent proteins go through a green fluorescent stage prior to becoming fully folded into their mature red fluorescent state. In fact, some proteins can be photoswitched in and/or out of their mature…
EMCCD Specs
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Editorial preface: Labrigger takes submissions from anyone. We post them if they’re potentially useful. In this case, we received some material from a commercial source. Labrigger is not endorsing their products. But we recognize…
PubPeer is taking off
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PubPeer, a site for anonymous (or non-anonymous), post-publication peer review is taking off nicely. Traffic is increasing to the site and there are a lot of interesting comments, including both detailed commentary…
Cellophane as a half-wave plate
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The last post on cheap optics reminded me of this 2003 paper where they showed that kitchen grade cellophane acts as a half-wave plate.
It was experimentally verified that an ordinary 25-????m-thick cellophane sheet possesses…
50% off at Edmund Optics
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If you’re like most people, you can get the vast majority of your holiday shopping done at Edmund Optics. They’re having a Cyber Monday sale this Monday, November 26th. Use code Cyber12 at checkout.
Here’s…
Death of the impact factor
Posted in Tips
There will probably always be a need for metrics like impact factor so that non-experts can estimate the significance of a scientist’s publications. These metrics are problematic, as we all know.
Interestingly, the relationship between…
Online Scientific Python: Wakari
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If you like Python, want to analyze data online, and are interested in a standardized environment that can be easily shared, read on:
Continuum Analytics is offering a new beta: Wakari. You can…
Inventables: raw materials source
Inventables is a web retailer with a decent site that makes it easy to find raw materials and interesting components. E.g., stretch-sensing rubber and conductive velcro.
…
GCaMP6 now available
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If you’ve been waiting to jump on the GECI bandwagon, you just ran out of excuses.
GCaMP6, a legitimate breakthrough, is now available at Addgene.
Hat tip to ybot.
…
R&D budgets in perspective
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A sense of scale can be valuable. Here are the 2012 Research & Development budgets of several tech companies and pharmaceutical companies compared to approximate annual disbursements from the Wellcome Trust and the…
figshare is taking off
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Figshare is an online database for storing figures, data, and papers. It’s been around for a while, but recently its really been taking off.
–You can post images, or entire paper PDFs. Also datasets.
–It’s…
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