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Blogs may not replace résumés or CVs, but they could — intentionally or not — show a prospective employer a side of you that you wouldn't voluntarily reveal in an interview. At least according to a recent article in Nature Jobs, which also makes some interesting points about scientific blogging.

Just when I though Bosco was posting too much poetry, he comes out with this truly excellent post on advice for young computational biologists. Bosco has managed to distill his 10 years of experience into eleven succinct points that are relevant to not only those just starting out in computational biology, but experienced hackers as well. This post is a must read, I highly recommend his advice in point four on using configuration files. It is a simple way of adding value to scripts, by extracting out the parameters into a config file and then writing another script to iterate over different values. Python has a default module for this, with many other third party options. And of course point eight, using command line plotting software, my current favorite is Ploticus.