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Liking this very much! Thanx, Rajarshi! - Egon Willighagen

i was about the link to my pubmed trends tool, but i see it has already been done :) it is indeed slow -- a clunky php proof of concept really. (it has been especially slow today because apache filled itself with processes that were trying to do i'm not sure what...) http://www.cotch.net/assed... - Joe Dunckley

It seems there's InParanoid (http://inparanoid.sbc.su.se/), roundup (http://roundup.hms.harvard.edu/site...), and TreeFam (http://www.treefam.org/). Any others? - Chris Lasher

Second the MGI resource. Mammalian Orthology: ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html#orthology - Walter Jessen

"PhyLIS is a user-friendly, free linux distribution for phylogenetics. Install it and you have an instant phylogenetics workstation. No downloading packages or messing with compilers, no configuring software, no worrying about small differences between systems that mess up your scripts. Simply install, sit down, and work. PhyLIS started during a period when I was acquiring several new computers for a large phyloinformatic project and grew tired of installing general purpose linux distributions, and then having to spend an hour or two reconfiguring everything and adding software on each new computer. I began developing scripts that would do some of this work for me, eventually they became overly-complicated, and I still had to carry around thumbdrives full of software or needlessly re-download everything. Eventually it just became more desirable to have an operating system that was specifically geared towards doing phylogenetics. PhyLIS is based on Ubuntu linux, a widely used... more... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

No, you don't need to go on. - Bill Anderson from twhirl

"jar files that don't run"?? ... used to running .so files then? - Egon Willighagen

Reading things like this and meeting old friends (skilled, intelligent scientists most of them) suddenly unemployed or running out of grant money, is what make me glad I opted out of academia. - Nils Reinton

NPR interview with Prasher: http://www.npr.org/templat... - Nils Reinton

Must update the post with this story: http://friendfeed.com/nuin... - Björn Brembs

The key to both Indian and Chinese applicants seems to be a very close knowledge of which institutions have the highest standards and local contacts. I used to try and reply individually to these but now get about ten a week even without positions advertised. - Cameron Neylon

FOXBOROUGH, MA—In a rare show of emotion, Patriots coach Bill Belichick began to cry during linebacker Tedy Bruschi's farewell press conference Monday, shedding a noxious black discharge that burned through the podium and a solid concrete floor before eventually coming to rest deep inside the mantle of the earth below. - The Onion

WASHINGTON—In the continuing controversy surrounding the president's U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as... - The Onion

Crazy. Any software that recommends medical treatments based on genetics will have to be of the same quality as, say, space shuttle code. That requires slow, deliberate, and methodical development, and insane amounts of testing. Startups and agile web hackers coding into the night have their place, but medicine is not one of them. - Chris Miller

The links series is really good to check out... no one will ever recognize you as a R users from your papers again once you start using these two R packages ;) - Egon Willighagen

Indeed, lattice is amazingly powerful - Rajarshi Guha

This points to the Learning R blog - http://learnr.wordpress.com/. Which, Christina once pointed out, might better be called "learning ggplot2". Regardless, it's a great learning resource with full code and output. - Neil Saunders

CONCORD, NH—The mortifying scene, which included several heated utterances of "bad dog" and "very bad dog," lasted nearly 20 seconds, according to reports. - The Onion

That's exactly how I feel. Why do we need metrics, prizes, awards, larger than life egos, etc, etc - Paulo Nuin

+1 Deepak. In many ways industry is much cleaner - if it makes financial sense - funding will be there - go ahead. If not - tough - do something else. For sure, not an approach that will solve all problems, but definitely an option I would recommend for those tired with academic struggle. - Nils Reinton

Comparison of academic careers in Europe: salaries, requirements for positions, ... - Jan Aerts

"Academic careers differ between countries, and across disciplines. See the following pages for info on your discipline: Economics, history, law, political and social studies" :-( - Björn Brembs

I was checking my countries academic career path and noticed they left something out. Something we here call: "Factor cunha" :P - Ricardo Vidal

Brilliant ! Works well too - Nils Reinton

Looks like blog comments isn't showing well while friendfeed and twitter mentions shows - Nils Reinton

"A leading UK climatologist is being inundated by freedom-of-information-act requests to make raw climate data publicly available, leading to a renewed row over data access." - Björn Brembs from Bookmarklet

Wagn is an opensource wiki engine written on top of Rails. It's main innovation appears to be rather than making the basic unit a "Page" of wikitext, it uses "Cards", which can contain different formatted data types (images, blogs, tickets, forms). One "card" can also be embedded in another, in several places. Other features, such as the JSON-based WQL query language allow Wagn to be used as a structured database with dynamic representations of the underlying data. I'm intrigued ... - Andrew Perry

Intriguing. Install note: if you want to use sqlite3, edit lib/tasks/bootstrap.rake and change now() to datetime('now'). - Neil Saunders

and to get the source "git clone git://github.com/wagn/wagn.git" - Deepak Singh