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That's awesome. - Bill Hooker

My initial reaction was "how can anyone pipette that quickly !" ... but it seems they have some fancy quench-flow equipment to get around that problem. Very cool. - Andrew Perry

The overview of the proposal is already on my blog: http://freelancingscience.com/2009... - Pawel Szczesny

nice and brief overview-- thanks Pawel - Mark A Jensen

"Organizers can apply to hold a series of three conferences that may take place over a six-year period in an EMBC Member State. These conferences should cover different and evolving aspects of a relatively broad subject area of major importance to the scientific community worldwide. They may alternate with corresponding meetings in North America or Asia, facilitating interactions between scientists based in Europe and beyond. A minimum of 100 participants should be accepted. The maximum funding provided by EMBO for a conference series is 30,000 euro per conference" - Attila Csordas from Bookmarklet

But then you have to have a list of (travel-subsidized) speakers, which sort of undermines the unconference principle. - Heather

Very cool - who else is on the programme? - Cameron Neylon

I don't know details yet. I hoped to meet some of you in person, but it looks that all guests from abroad are involved in Open Access projects (which is the main focus of the conference). It's short, one day event, so I don't expect lots of speakers. - Pawel Szczesny

Really too bad that I won't be in Poland then :-( Good luck and I hope to finally meet you later this year. - Piotr Byzia from twhirl

Java, java, java....hmm methinks there is a message in there somewhere... - Cameron Neylon

Mike, Shoebot looks nice, I haven't seen that before. - Pawel Szczesny

"The Yu group have created a ‘home-made’ micro-array on a music CD that just needs an ordinary CD player to scan the disk for the results of the binding assay. They did what!?! You heard right – and their system is impressively flexible since interactions involving DNA and protein can both be analysed." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

"The disk can be inserted into a standard CD player to analyse the results! Because music CDs have been designed to play back smoothly even when they get scratched or dirty, the music is encoded in a way that allows error detection and correction. The software analyzing the readout from the disk knows precisely where the errors on the disk lie. Now, normally you don’t care about the... more... - Maxine

"The problem is that there is a certain amount of per-file overhead when using scp or rsync to copy files from one machine to the other. This is not a problem under most circumstances, but if you are attempting to duplicate tens of thousands of files (think, server or database backup), this per-file overhead can really add up. The solution is to copy the files over in a single stream, which normally means tarring them up on one server, copying the tarball, then untarring on the destination. Unless you are under 50% disk utilization on the source server, this could cause you to run out of space. Brett Jones has an alternative solution, which uses the handy netcat utility..." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

also...lists of fungi, viruses etc... - Antony Williams

Eric, cool! Thanks for that link. - Neil Saunders

as other countries continue to develop technology and we begin to fall behind? Not so sure about that one, but I'd welcome the IP policy change. - Mr. Gunn

I love DokuWiki too, didn't know about the PubMed plugin - neat :) - Daniel Swan

Mitch: don't recall any issues with gnuplot. Just followed the link off this page - http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:..., downloaded, installed. Worked fine, once gnuplot was installed on the server :) - Neil Saunders

No Unix trick is ever stupid. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

But all of them _are_ awesome. - i80and

Great review by Duncan Hull et al describing scientific literature repositories and bibliographic tools. Disclaimer: very happy obviously with the attention for Papers! ;-) - Alexander Griekspoor from Bookmarklet

Anyone would like to put some efforts for RPM? - Yu-Jie Lin

A lot has certainly happened in 3 years - we're almost the same "age" - Jean-Claude Bradley

Congratulations!!! and yes a lot has changed. I am right behind you :) - Deepak Singh

Love that tip on scaling - Deepak Singh

The last point feeds back into the first point. - Michael Barton

Love the connection between #1 and #10. Open Everything FTW! - Bill Hooker

Oh nice - Deepak Singh

Love markov chains. - Mike Reynolds

After realizing that SlideShare is not good for posters, I decided to simply upload high-resolution images of the posters to a Picasa web album. At least it allows zooming and ensures that everything is rendered correctly. - Lars Juhl Jensen

Thanks for clarification; that explains why Tumblr media are not displayed, Tumblr's fault not FF. - Neil Saunders