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After I published Rebel Code in 2001, there was a natural instinct to think about writing another book (a natural masochistic instinct, I s...

Microsoft's up to its old tricks of offering pretty baubles to the innocent with The Microsoft Biology Foundation : The bioinformatics c...

So Jim Watson's genome will soon be made public . But not all of it: the only deliberate omission from Watson's sequence is that of...

Biofinformatics is wonderful when it comes to elucidating the structure of genomes. But it can also be applied in other, rather less laudab...

One of the great things about open genomics - or bioinformatics if you prefer its traditional name - is that it provides a completely object...

This stuff is getting too easy. First, find some ancient remains - Croatian Neanderthal bones are great. Next, sequence lots - at least 20...

Yesterday, when I was writing about the structures found in DNA, I said Between the genes lie stretches of the main program that calls the ...

A little while back I wrote about the blog-form of carnivals. At the time, Pedro Beltrão said he was about to start a new one, devoted to...

My book Digital Code of Life was partly about the battle to keep genomic and other bioinformatics information open. So it's good to se...

One of the favourite games of scholars working on ancient texts that have come down to us from multiple sources is to create a family tree o...

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the latest round of meg...

Great story in Nature about data mashups - the mixing together of data drawn from disparate sources to create a sum greater than the parts....

If you are interested in the background to the recent ruling against the teaching of Intelligent Design alongside Darwinian evolution in sci...