csbio (biocs tumbled)

a tumblelog to supplement my real blog

Things too long to tweet and too unimportant to blog go here.

May
11th
2010

Tue

We hypothesize that the presence of a rare codon, marked by the synonymous polymorphism, affects the timing of cotranslational folding and insertion of P-gp into the membrane, thereby altering the structure of substrate and inhibitor interaction sites.

— A “silent” polymorphism in the MDR1 gene changes substrate specificity [Science. 2007] - PubMed result

May
10th
2010

Mon

FORA.tv - Sage Commons: Josh Sommer, Chordoma Foundation via Cameron Neylon / Deepak Singh : “The one video every life scientist should watch”

May
4th
2010

Tue

Python for Chemistry

slides from a talk by Noel O’Boyle

Apr
23rd
2010

Fri

OpenStreetMap data is on your train - OpenGeoData

Apr
21st
2010

Wed

Functional share policy: SGE tries to give everyone the same share of the cluster without any compensations for users who use the cluster in bursts (via gridengine.info)

Share Tree policy: past usage is taken into account for assigning the current priorities (via gridengine.info)

Mar
26th
2010

Fri

Bentham: nobody has acess anyway, so the icon on PubMed says: “Full-Text Article Inquiry”

Mar
18th
2010

Thu

LG Electronics [fridges] were found to contain an illegal device that activates an energy-saving mode when it detects room conditions similar to those in a test laboratory.

— LG fridges: life’s not so good

Mar
11th
2010

Thu

Here’s my point: businesses don’t get to pick the timetable for when their preferred model takes a permanent dirt nap.

— kung fu grippe Entitled to Care

Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times.

— Scott and Scurvy