Wolfram is pushing a new document format called Computable Document Format (CDF). It looks like PDF + embedded Java apps.
One the one hand, there’s the xkcd viewpoint. This is basically just another step…
Last Friday afternoon to Saturday morning I had a marathon data analysis session. It was almost completely in Igor Pro. I used TaroTools so heavily that I dropped Taro another thank you note. It’s really saved me so much programming and analysis time. I highly recommend checking it out. Prof. Ishikawa…
Ars Technica has a short, but nice article on the US Government’s role in AT&T’s decision to release Unix to a…
Baudline software (Linux/OSX) is free software for analyzing the spectral components of signals. It’s really well-made and has a lot of features. This can be useful for…
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,…
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…
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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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…
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