Nice! Compare your response to this guy http://www.flickr.com/help/for... I like yours better, though I'm afraid his is more common. - Mr. Gunn

On my Flickr profile page I ask to link back to my blog if somebody uses my CC-licensed images, but I never make any issues if they don't (they never do). If I'm contacted directly, I always offer to do something custom for free or better version, higher resolution etc. Some people tend to spend too much time fighting for attribution instead of doing more stuff worth sharing/attributing (it's like in science, isn't it?) - Pawel Szczesny

Pawel, which image did they use? - Ricardo Vidal

Ricardo, DNA rendering (the one on grey background). - Pawel Szczesny

Pawel .. so true. - Deepak

How did they manage that?? Do they relay on RHEL specific patches? - Egon Willighagen

Deepak,after I complained about bugs (like missing docs, wrong JRE versions etc.) to Roche they told me to install RHEL first. - Pawel Szczesny

Egon, good question. In general I was able to run almost anything on RH-like system (like Fedora). Accelrys and Tripos simply point to Fedora. Roche or CLC refuse to talk to you unless you use RHEL. - Pawel Szczesny

There is a reason though. Most companies QC teams will not certify software on a OS until they have run through all their test suite on a particular OS (and various configurations such as hardware, graphics cards, etc). Most of the time its a bandwidth issue Some other times it depends on what kind of support other vendors provide. - Deepak

someone should write up a generator for those things :D - Ricardo Vidal

One should start with ... "The sequencing of the human genome ... " - Deepak

Abstract generator, circa 1997: http://toddot.net/projects/fun... - Todd Harris via twhirl

Todd - that is great. I put in some realistic and some bogus terms and got, pretty much, something we REALLY did in the lab! - Bora Zivkovic

Bora Zivkovic and Herbert Underwood NCSU Despite ten years of intensive efforts, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that underlie circadian rhythms. Recent observations have implicated cryptochrome, a photolyase, in this process, but to date no perturbation studies of this gene have been conducted. We tested the hypothesis that cryptochrome functions in circadian rhythms by cloning the Japanese quail cryptochrome homolog. The homolog encodes a predicted protein of 1000 amino acids with 96% overall identity to the vertebrate cryptochrome. Japanese quail cryptochrome is highly expressed in all retinal ganglion cells and colocalizes with period, a protein known to be essential for circadian rhythms. Mutations in cryptochrome substantially disrupt circadian rhythms and cause Japanese quail to become clock-blind. These observations 1) confirm a role for cryptochrome in circadian rhythms and 2) suggest that cryptochrome and period form part of a core complex mediating circadian rhythms. - Bora Zivkovic

Too bad I cannot come... - Pawel Szczesny

Love the title :) You should have a parallel session "How to lose friends and alienate people with [insert software of choice]" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04... - Duncan Hull

Look forward to it - even better hold the session simultaneously while the rest of the meeting is going on - a whole new meaning to the term parallel session - Cameron Neylon

It looks like I can edit other people's lab pages, notebooks etc. - Pawel Szczesny

I Though the User:* personal pages would be locked but it's not the case, even on wikipedia.org . Ok, fine. - Pierre

I think the default is full edit access, if you're an approved member? - Neil Saunders

Now I understand why the registration isn't automatic. - Pawel Szczesny

In other words, I can become a cartoon drawing French geek and no one would notice (actually I think they'd notice very quickly) - Deepak

Yep - general policy is nothing hidden, nothing protected. Assumption is that people will play nicely - hence the semi-compulsion to use real names - Cameron Neylon

As a virologist, I've worked with protein interactions between the host cell proteins and the viral proteins. In this system, the organisms/systems are distinct, thus people may be missing a useful information. - Pierre

Good points. Wonder how the others hold up in this respect: DIP, IntAct? - Neil Saunders

BTW, Pierre, have you seen this paper? http://www.plospathogens.org/a... - Pawel Szczesny

Nice paper. /me -> citeulike. - Neil Saunders

@Pawel whoa ! cool, I wish I could have read this paper when I was writing my thesis... but that was 8 years ago :-) but I'm not anymore in this field. I'm also very suspicious with the high-throughput methods used to detect protein-protein interaction. With only a few proteins, it was already long and difficult to find the good conditions, avoid the false positives etc.. and most important, at the end, detecting the interaction *in-vivo* - Pierre

Best of luck! What's the page count so far? - Matt Wood

Thanks a lot Matt. It's around 40-50 at the moment (it would be more, if I didn't use LaTex :) ). There's something like 20 left (another week) and I'm done. Or rather I have to be done before end of next week, as I have another project due in July. - Pawel Szczesny

Good idea. There's a WordPress plugin to do the reverse as well -- show FF likes and comments on the original post -- so you can be sure the conversation won't get split. Deepak has it working already, I noticed. - Bill Hooker

I've got it working too. Before anyone does the reverse as lars is doing, make sure you've got your comment spam sorted out, please! - Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn, I agree that spam is a potential problem with this setup. But I think I should be fairly safe since I do not allow anonymous comments, hold the first comment from new users for moderation, and run the Akismet spam filter. - Lars Juhl Jensen

Bill, I would very much like to use a plugin to get FriendFeed comments into my blog. Unfortunately it would require me to change my Wordpress.com blog to be a self-hosted Wordpress blog. - Lars Juhl Jensen

Would be great if wordpress.com installed the FF plugin. I used to self-host, but the admin overhead became way too much. - Neil Saunders

I also hope Wordpress.com will allow FF plugin. I had two other self-hosted blogs and like Neil, I was tired of maintenance (each single update was breaking the installation). - Pawel Szczesny