DrawSCH lets you draw schematics online, in a browser window, and then get JPGs or PNGs emailed to you. (link)
PDF export is in the works, but the SVG export works fine, if you want a vector file. Handy.
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In the early days of patch clamp electrophysiology, everyone made their own patch clamp amplifiers because there were none commercially available. I was lucky enough to be educated by scientists of such lineage, and…
Over a year ago, we covered the OpenPCR project. Following their successful Kickstarter campaign, which netted twice their funding goal, they’re now actually shipping the devices.
To start, this is a $512 PCR machine (aka…
The subject of prolificacy came up in lab the other day. A study from the 80s (pdf) plotted the number of papers from a lab versus the number of people…
OpenMoCo is short for “Open Motion Control”. The community is focussed on building rigs for moving cameras.
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Labrigger has been going for one year now.
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Average monthly increase in traffic. This is excluding…
On the topic of apps in science… RFspotter is an iPad app for mapping receptive fields on the fly. It’s intended as a quick way to coarsely map a cell’s RF…
This is a long post. If you’re in a rush, then just read these first two paragraphs.
One of the early posts on this blog was about …
There are several MATLAB-related items to post, but individually they don’t amount to much, so I’ll just…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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