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XML: The Angle Bracket Tax

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I'd rather pay angle bracket tax, than "everybody write their own parser" tax :) - Duncan Hull

I quite like YAML - Michael Barton via Alert Thingy

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Using SOAP as an example of anything weakens your case! - Andrew Walkingshaw

Is that like Godwin's Law? Has SOAP become the new evil? - Michael Barton via Alert Thingy

There wasn't a *single* presentation mentioning SOAP as any sort of a good thing at XTech last week. - Andrew Walkingshaw

I don't see too many new services appearing as SOAP+WSDL, but there is a substantial legacy of them on the web which can't be ignored, see http://seekda.com/ for example. - Duncan Hull

Luckily in science we'll only need to wait 18 months for them all to disappear from unmaintained personal accounts on shaky lab servers. - Euan

Don't even have to wait 18 months for that :) more like 18 days... :) - Duncan Hull

What a boring rant... don't reed the blog item. - Egon Willighagen

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Calling all microbiologists --- we need better PR to compete with the platypus and other cutesies

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In pursuit of virtual lead optimization: The role of the receptor structure and ensembles in accurate docking

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Comprehensive inventory of protein complexes in the Protein Data Bank from consistent classification of interfaces

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BMC Bioinformatics in shock "biologically relevant article" revelation! - Neil Saunders

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“that was all a little frustrating; such is bioinformatics! time to walk it off”

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“so, no flat file format for PIR iproclass? only tabbed summary or massive XML”

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“going round in sequence database circles...”

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“ooh, it's not PIR anymore, it's iproclass and it's rather good; but how do you parse it?”

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Mapping Freebase

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Didn't really work for Steve Fossett, did it. - Neil Saunders

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Google brings Friend Connect to the masses (Dan Farber/Outside the Lines)

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Inquiry in the Cloud

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Comprehensive inventory of protein complexes in the Protein Data Bank from consistent classification of interfaces

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“alright, enough mascot regexes for one day; svn commit, bed”

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“you know, I don't need popup facebook notifications; off; that's better”

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“@Stew Having some success with TreeBuilder; I like the sound of the Alf method”

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“enough; time for a brisk walk home over the river”

Sunday at 11:40 pm

“will be resorting to grep again before long; why are Perl HTML parsers so bad?”

Sunday at 11:39 pm

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“devising regexes for a pile of HTML::TreeBuilder elements”

Sunday at 9:13 pm

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Echidnas have genomes, too

Sunday at 8:50 pm

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“can't put off learning how to use a Perl HTML parser module any longer...”

Sunday at 8:06 pm

“skimming through friendfeed from last night; oh, the anguish when it went down :)”

Sunday at 7:44 pm

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“@attilacsordas I usually read a book; travel is the only time I get for that old-fashioned activity”

Sunday at 7:16 pm

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Victorian 'supercomputer' is reborn

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UK Science Museum did it first, but still cool. - Neil Saunders

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Proteomics discussion from the science streamosphere

Sunday at 6:27 pm

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“@mza @mndoci in "real terms" ? can global "real terms" be estimated ? (I need an economist)”

Sunday at 5:36 pm

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“used to like the panda's thumb; seems to have gone way down the ranting atheist road”

Sunday at 4:16 pm

Sadly too many blogs have gone that route, esp on a certain network - Deepak

They are starting their own religion, even if only atheistic - PauloNuin

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“finished adding my own papers to citeulike; more than an exercise in egotism :)”

Sunday at 2:46 am

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No I disagree. It's part of your datastream and valuable stuff. - Cameron Neylon

and I missed the 'than' in that statement when I first read it...musn't reply on too little sleep... - Cameron Neylon

no worries, I'm starting to recognise the signs of sleep-deprivation :) - Neil Saunders

I am amazed I manage to drive 20 miles every morning - Deepak

I can barely see in the morning :) - Neil Saunders

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“@mndoci not to mention the "fun side projects" which have taken a back seat of late”

Sunday at 5:03 pm

That I can completely relate to sadly :( - Deepak

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“@mndoci always :) working on a web app (for ISMB) and some scripts to process Mascot data”

Sunday at 4:54 pm

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An in Vivo Map of the Yeast Protein Interactome

Sunday at 5:30 pm

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Neil Young gets new honor -- his own spider

Sunday at 4:51 pm

For a second I thought you were talking about yourself again :) - Deepak

Again?! Not feeling so "young" this week and in no way as cool as the grandfather of grunge :) - Neil Saunders

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“looking forward to a week of coding up new projects”

Sunday at 4:23 pm

Anything super exciting? - Deepak

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