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From the guy who is already known for:
"woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual"
"a link between skin colour and sex drive, positing the theory that black people have higher libidos"
"argued in favour of genetic screening and engineering on the basis that " stupidity" could one day be cured"
"People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would great"
Comes another:
"all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really"

The American poet and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron once famously remarked that The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [1]. Science has undergone its own quiet revolution since the invention of the Web back in 1990. This has slowly but surely changed scientific communication, not just a Revolution but a "Webolution" [2] if you like. The recent addition of television to the Web means that, to paraphrase Gil, the Webolution will be televised. You can now watch some of the webolution in science, thanks the likes of JOVE (The Journal Of Visualised Experiments), SciVee.TV, Google Video and YouTube. What are these sites like and is their scientific and technical content any good?

Greg Tyrell recently remarked that there was no point in defending open-access publishing because its triumph is a foregone conclusion. I agree with him. However, for the younger guys out there, it may not be obvious why subscription science magazines is going the way of the Dodo. So I would like to offer some history.

Calling all Scientists, is your hair luxuriant and flowing? Perhaps you're a bouffant bioinformatician, a hairy hacker or share a lab with somebody who is? If this is you, its high-time you joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.

resolver system
We Have just released the first private beta of our new Python Spreadsheet Platform. We are looking for beta testers.

If you want more info here are a few link
Our website: www.resolversystems.com
Our screencast: http://www.resolversystems.com/screencasts/
Several external link:
http://www.ironpython.info/index.php/Main_Page
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/28/1518246
http://jonudell.net/screencast/resolver/resolver-flash.html

Help with SNPs,
Is there any body that understand or masters SNPs? I got this assignment to do SNPs for the A virus (H5N1) and I got no idea what to do. I'm searching a lot but all I see is the dbSNP. Is there anyway to do SNPs on different sequences? if there is then how is this get done and what kind of tools should I use. Please help

I've been skimming through my notes recently and I've been thinking about a good way to organize things electronically.
Inspired by a post in Bioinformatics Zen, I decided to use a wiki (not MediaWiki, as it's really overkill), and I chose DokuWiki. However I think most of my research is done by taking daily notes, therefore a wiki is not really a good option because daily posts have to be created manually.

Hello.
I'm almost done with my Ph.D. thesis, and while looking for some critical views of Gene Ontology I've stumbled over an interesting blog post by Kay on the subject. He quotes some papers which I promptly added in the thesis's references, but I would like to add also some of his blog posts in the reference. Has anyone ever added blog posts to their references? Is this an acceptable practice?

Does anyone have a good (free, open source) software solution to reduce the redundancy of a set of sequences (eg return a set where no two sequences are more than 90 % identical, based on a pairwise alignment) ?