Profile-profile methods have been used for some years now to detect and align homologous proteins. The best such methods use information from the background distribution of amino acids and substitution tables either when constructing the profiles or in the scoring. The paper shows that ProfNet improves the discrimination of related...
I couldn't resist posting a link to this amazing video from The Onion of a White House spokesman "spinning" the death of his wife via a car accident. The Onion does great satire and this is right at the top. Good spoof of the PR industry as...
I'm spending more and more time on Facebook. It's an amazing social media phenomenon. First and foremost is the fact that everyone or virtually everyone is on Facebook under their real identity. So you have some idea of who you are dealing with. Secondly, it's an incredibly dynamic and rich...
Posterous has only been a round a month so far, but it's already gaining adherents among bloggers, and in particular, micro-bloggers. The company offers a way for bloggers to go mobile and post via email or text messaging -- for free. Posterous is part of a broader movement to simplify...