Monthly Archives: October 2010

Code rongorongo*

Open-sourcing computer programs used as part of a scientific research program is important to supporting the validity of the research conducted and enabling progress in many fields. Yet, the issue of making computer code widely available is not without complication. Continue reading

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Surfing the Wave

As Dilara pointed out in her recent post, keeping track of all the new papers, programs, and techniques is an enormous challenge for the busy molecular ecologist. These days it seems that one should be following publications in Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources (of course!), TrEE, Science, Nature, Ecology, PNAS, BMC Evolutionary Biology, and PLoS biology/genetics*. Of course, this doesn’t include those journals specific to your particular sub-discipline.
– Finding New Papers –
The simplist way to keep track of new papers is with Google Reader. Google Reader, if you’re unaware, is google’s online Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader. Basically, it lets you follow RSS feeds from searches on Pubmed, journals themselves, or blogs. In then colates on all the feed entries onto a single webpage. Essentially, you a list of journals and sublists with the most recent publications, abstracts, and links to the full articles. It definitely beats getting monthly table of contents emails. Continue reading

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Hybrid sequencing on hybrids

Today I want to talk about an article, recently published in special issue of Molecular Ecology, by Buggs et al. 2010 (Mol Ecol 19: 132-146).  In this paper, the authors used two different next generation methods, pyrosequencing and cyclic reversible … Continue reading

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