Thursday, January 31, 2008

How Shall I Integrate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways...

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Leigh Dodds has a nice post How Shall I Integrate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways... about different ways to integrate data. The one where we s...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Metacrap

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Time for a rant. I spend a lot of time fussing with records from sources such as GenBank and DiGIR providers, trying to extract strings that...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

EDIT meeting

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Spent the week in Portugal at the EDIT Future Trends of Taxonomy meeting, held at the View from cave, at the beach in front of the Hotel Ti...
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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