October 2007
5 posts
I was interested in the Genomebench software of NCBI since i found Artemis a little wanting in the UI part. Genomebench offers interesting possibilities in interacting with Genome databases which i presumed from the screenshot on their webpage. Which also said NCBI Genome Workbench is an integrated application for viewing and analyzing sequence data. With Genome Workbench, you can view data in...
Oct 22nd
Yes atleast in flies says a news article in the Scientific American October 2007 issue. Experiments were performed with flies which were cleaned of all bacteria on them and were provided with un-contaminated food (devoid of any bacterial life forms) and compared with normal flies in regard to lifespan. Surprisingly no significant difference was observed within the groups. It is a widespread idea...
Oct 22nd
Oct 19th
Incase you haven’t seen the top 5 best science images selected for this year…then you really should Here’s my favourite of the best It may look like a strange insect , but this is actually a CT image revealing the delicate structures underlying the human nose. (via Bala’s Blog)
Oct 17th
On my endeavor to get my firefox as fast as safari, i was looking around for customized builds of firefox for my Intel Core 2 Duo.I have been trying a flavor of firefox that is designed for the Mac OS and i noticed a considerable difference in firefox performance.Yesterday i came across yet another customized build - but this time its customized for the Processor! I was blown away by the...
Oct 13th