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Biotech conversation notes

Raw notes from a series of conversations I had with people doing bioinformatics and drug discovery research and related work in mid to late 2011. Medical genetics researchers, 6/27/2011 Genomics: still interesting! SNPs are single bases, but variations are often much bigger than that Finding genes and gene patterns that correlate Biomarkers: any interesting bio […]
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Sailing the Greek Cyclades

For the first leg of our Mediterranean vacation, we sailed a catamaran around the Cyclades islands in Greece. We started on Syros, scrapped our original route to Mykonos due to weather, and instead headed south. We sailed a few hours each day, dropped anchor at a new island each night, and poked around on shore […]
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Ubuntu Lucid

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) to Lucid (10.04). Similar to my list of tips for Fedora Core 3 on VMWare, here are some tips for Ubuntu Lucid. (I’m running it on a Thinkpad X201). If you use VMWare, don’t bother with trying to build VMWare tools. Instead, use Open VM Tools, an open […]
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