MATLAB Mobile 2.0: cloud computing
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MATLAB Mobile is a way to use MATLAB from an iOS device. It’s cute, but a bit odd, because you used to need to have MATLAB running on your own server in order to take…
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Tell the NIH what to spend money on
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There’s an RFI (request for information) out now for the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience (the structure that cuts across different institutes that all support neuroscience: NINDS, NIMH, NEI, etc.). These RFIs are an…
CDF: Mathematica’s PDF
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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 in…
Taro Tools and PPT for Igor Pro
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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 keeps…
Proto open source
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Ars Technica has a short, but nice article on the US Government’s role in AT&T’s decision to release Unix to a wider audience.
Bell…
Baudline: Signal analysis
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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 analyzing LFPs,…
Draw schematics online
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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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2pLSM: When will scientists stop making their own?
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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 in…
OpenPCR: Now shipping
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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…
Papers per person per year
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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 in the…
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