HDF5 + XML = SDCubes
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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…
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Destroying the curve
Posted in Hardware
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
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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…
Another blog added
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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…
Idex CVI Melles Griot
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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…
2p cross sections for fluorescent proteins
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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…
Data’s killer app
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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
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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?
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