Monday, March 27, 2006

Quantum treemaps

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One of the things that keeps bothering me is the lack of compelling ways to visualise information in phylogenetic databases. Trees themselve...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

OpenSearch

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Not a huge fan of IE, but this post on David Patten's blog nicely illustrates the ease of use of A9's OpenSearch with IE 7. I'...
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Firefox Extension for Turning Built-in SVG on and off

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A quick Google found this Firefox extension for turning built-in SVG on and off, posted on or maybe something uplifting . Really useful lit...
Monday, March 20, 2006

Fun and games with WebDot and Fedora Core 4

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Well, that was fun. I've just installed AT&T's WebDot , a Tcl CGI program for generating images of graphs on the fly using Graph...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Biodiversity Informatics Visualization

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The Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland has produced numerous nice visualisation tools, and has a page devoted to ...
Monday, March 13, 2006

Least Common Ancestor (LCA) queries

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My suspicion is that most queries biologists would make concerning trees are fundamentally LCA queries (as opposed to pattern matching, for ...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

All My Eye

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All My Eye is a new blog by staff at Ingenta involved in RDF and related projects. Worth keeping an eye on, especially as the Ingenta field...

Genome browsers and chronograms

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Continuing the theme of visualising phylogenies, one thing which strikes me is the parallel between genome browsers that display annotation ...
Monday, February 27, 2006

Interval queries

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VLDB2005 has some interesting papers. One which caught my eye is Efficiently Processing Queries on Interval-and-Value Tuples in Relational ...

Document icons

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Amber Frid-Jimenez : has a really nice page showing document icons that reflect the words contained in the document. Neat idea, and has a lo...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

LSID Firefox extension update

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I've updated my extension to resolve LSIDs in Firefox so that it works with version 1.5.0.1 (the most recent version of Firefox). The ex...
Sunday, February 12, 2006

Rob McCool on Rethinking the Semantic Web

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Having read Rob McCool's articles on Rethinking the Semantic Web (brought to my attention by Bob McMorris' comment on my earlier pos...
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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Globally Unique Identifiers

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I attended the TDWG-GUID workshop on Global Unique Indenitifers (GUIDs) held at NESCent , which has issued a report . Essentially, the aim o...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Search result comparison

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Yet more cool stuff from information aesthetics, this time a comparison of search results from Google and Yahoo . Given my own talk on Googl...

Treemaps

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I came across this version of treemaps a little while ago, but this post on information aesthetics reminds me to add this to the list of co...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

TreeBASE talk at CIPRES

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On Saturday I gave a short invited talk at the CIPRES all hands meeting in Austin . Not sure if I'll be invited back after this, but I t...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Finding good phylogenies using citation relationships

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How does a person who is not expert in a group of organisms find a good phylogeny to use for their work? Think of somebody interested in ani...
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Monday, January 02, 2006

Wouldn't it be cool if ... GenBank watch

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From the "wouldn't it be cool if" department, one thing I've often thought would be very handy would be a web site that li...
Saturday, December 31, 2005

Bone Rooms, Bird Bodies, and Biodiversity Informatics

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Bone Rooms, Bird Bodies, and Biodiversity Informatics is an old article now, but it's a nice summary of what biodiversity informatics ...

Edit script for classifications

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One of the first concrete things to emerge from this research is a paper with Gabriel Valiente entitled An edit script for taxonomic classi...