Thursday, September 27, 2007

Mesquite does Google Earth files

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The latest version of the David and Wayne Maddison's Cartographer module for their program Mesquite can export KML files for Google Ea...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Parallels

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Quick note to say how much fun it is to use Parallels Desktop . It's a great advantage to have Windows XP and Fedora Core 7 running on ...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Nature Precedings

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Nature precedings is pre-publication server launched by Nature a few months ago. To quote from the website: Nature Precedings is a place fo...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Matching names in phylogeny data files

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In an earlier post I described the TBMap database ( doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-158 ), which contains a mapping of TreeBASE taxon names onto n...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

RAxML BlackBox

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Alexis Stamatakis and Jacques Rougemont have released RAxML BlackBox , a prototype Web-Server for RAxML which is attached to a 200 CPU-clus...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

Internet Explorer -- argh!!!!!

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I would prefer to avoid Microsoft-bashing, but today I've spent time trying to get my tree viewer to work under Internet Explorer 6 and...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Visualising very big trees, Part V

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Inspired partly by the image viewers mentioned earlier , and tools like Google Finance's plot of stock prices , I've built yet anoth...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

Bird supertree project - "Open Source" phylogenetics

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Black Browed Albatross Originally uploaded by QuestingBeast Today is the day Katie Davis and I are launching the Bird Supertree Pr...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Expand-Ahead: A Space-Filling Strategy for Browsing Trees

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For the "to do" list, expand-ahead browsing looks like a useful approach to build upon PygmyBrowse (see my live demo ). The appro...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Visualising very big trees, Part IV

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Continuing the theme of viewing big trees , another approach to viewing large objects is tiling , which most people will have encountered if...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Visualising very big trees, Part III

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I've refined my first efforts to now highlight where you are in the tree. The trees on display here now show the new look. Basically I...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

Visualising very big trees, Part II

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OK, time to put my money where my mouth is. Here's a first stab at displaying big trees in a browser. Not terribly sophisticated, but re...
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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Viewing very large trees

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One of the striking pictures in Tamara Munzner et al.'s paper "TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Gu...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

I hate computers

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The PC hosting linnaeus.zoology.gla.ac.uk and darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk has died, and this spells the end of my interest in (a) using gener...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

LSID wars

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Well, the LSID discussion has just exploded in the last few weeks. I touched on this in my earlier post Rethinking LSIDs versus HTTP URI , b...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Phyloinformatics Workshop in Edinburgh October 22-24 2007

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This October 22-24 there is a phyloinformatics workshop at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, hosted in conjunction with the ...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Making taxonomic literature available online

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Based on my recent experience developing an OpenURL service (described here , here , and here ), linking this to a reference parser and AJAX...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

Rethinking LSIDs versus HTTP URI

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The TDWG-GUID mailing list for this month has a discussion of whether TDWG should commit to LSIDs as the GUID of choice. Since the first GU...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

Earth not flat - official

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Oops. One big problem with drawing trees in Google Earth is that the Earth, sadly, is not flat. This means that widely distributed clades ca...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Google Earth phylogenies

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Now, for something completely different. I've been playing with Google Earth as a phylogeny viewer, inspired by Bill Piel's efforts ...
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