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A Simple Genome Annotator?
By Iddo on October 22nd, 2014
A question to genome annotators out there. I need a simple genome annotator for annotating bacteriophage genomes in an undergraduate course. Until now, we used DNAMaster but for various reasons I would like to move away from that. Here’s what I need for class: 1. Annotate a single assembled linear chromosome, about 50,000 bp, 80-120 genes, no […]
DNA half life, and my dream of an Allosaurus Army
By Iddo on October 12th, 2012
Let’s get this clear: Tyrannosaurus rex, the best selling figurine of class reptilia is not my favorite bad-ass top-of-the-food chain predator. Come on. Did you see its arms? I mean… As a kid, I always thought the Allosaurus was much cooler. For one thing, it was on the cover of my favorite dinosaur book, “The […]
Operating systems and sandwiches
By Iddo on January 29th, 2012
Ubuntu Linux: “You can have your sandwich any way you like, but recently we started wrapping it in this really ugly wrapper. Still yummy though, and you can ask for a different wrapper. But you have to ask”. Mac OSX: “We only serve ham & cheese on white bread. If you don’t like it, go […]
Quick Fix: ssh timeouts
By Iddo on May 29th, 2011
It is very annoying when you leave an ssh window open to your server with something running, go to lunch, come back to see this: Read from remote host my.stupid.server.uni.edu: Connection reset by peer. Connection to my.stupid.server.uni.edu closed. So here are two fixes. The first is server side. ssh to your server, and […]