Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Transitive reduction

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Quick note to self, having stumbled on the Wikipedia page on transitive reduction . Given a graph like this: the transitive reduction is: No...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Interview

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Paulo Nuin recently interviewed me for his Blind.Scientist blog. The interview is part of his SciView series.
Friday, November 16, 2007

Thesis online

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One side effect of the trend towards digitising everything is that stuff one forgot about (or, perhaps, would like to forget about) comes ba...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Phyloinformatics workshop online

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Slides from the recent Phyloinformatics workshop in Edinburgh are now online at the e-Science Institute . In case the e-Science Institute si...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

GBIF data evaluation

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Interesting paper in PLoS ONE ( doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001124 ) on the quality of data housed in GBIF . The study looked at 630,871 geore...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Amber spider

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Really just a shameless attempt to get one over David Shorthouse , but there has been some buzz about Very High Resolution X-Ray Computed ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Universal Serial Item Names

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Following on from the discussion of BHL and DOIs , I stumbled across some remarkable work by Robert Cameron at SFU. Cameron has developed Un...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Taxonomy is dead, long live taxonomy

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No, not taxonomy the discipline (although I've given a talk asking this question), but taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk , my long-running web...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

BHL and DOis

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In a series of emails Chris Freeland , David Shorthouse , and I have been discussing DOIs in the context of the Biodiversity Heritage Librar...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Phyloinformatics workshop - primal scream

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Argh!!! The phyloinformatics workshop at Edinburgh's eScience Centre is underway (program of talks available here as an iCalendar file...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Getting into Nature ... sort of

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The kind people at Nature have taken pity on my rapidly fading research career, and have highlighted my note "Towards a Taxonomically ...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Pygmybrowse GBIF classification

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Here is a live demo of Pygmybrowse using the Catalogue of Life classification of animals provided by GBIF. It's embedded in this post in...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Pygmybrowse revisited

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As yet another example of avoiding what I should really be doing, a quick note about a reworked version of PygmyBrowse (see earlier posts he...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Frog deja vu

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While using iSpecies to explore some names (e.g., Sooglossus sechellensis in the Frost et al. amphibian tree mentioned in the last post, I...
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Visualising very big trees Part VI

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I've tidied up the big phylogeny viewer mentioned earlier , and added a simple web form for anybody interested to upload a NEXUS or Newi...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007

processing PhylOData (pPOD)

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The first pPod workshop happened last month at NESCent, and some of the presentations are online on the pPod Wiki . Although I'm a ...
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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...