Changing "Illustration" to "Figure" in OpenOffice Writer
I’ve decided to try and use OpenOffice Writer properly .. like take advantage of some of its more powerful features rather than just using it as a text editor with formatting. For drafting manuscripts...
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Flash Player 9 for Linux released : Quick install for Ubuntu Dapper
Adobe Flash Player 9 is finally out of beta ! No more feeling like a second class netizen on “flashy” sites ! Here’s how I installed it on Ubuntu Dapper (the package is for Debian Sarge, but seems to...
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SDF Public Access Unix celebrates 20 years
The Super Dimensional Fortress Public Access Unix has now been in operation for 20 years ! SDF is a non-commercial member supported BBS, which offers free accounts with Unix shell access, and a...
View ArticleGoogle Desktop for Linux Released
Google Desktop for Linux has been officially released. It’s a real-honest-to-god native linux application, and doesn’t use Wine like the Linux version of Picasa. I’ve just installed it on Ubuntu Feisty...
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Qutemol using Cedega
Pawel over at Freelancing Science recently highlighted Qutemol, a nice looking molecular viewer that does real-time ambient occlusion rendering. There isn’t any official Linux version, but I found that...
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Software review: producing two dimensional diagrams of membrane proteins
I recently needed to make a simple, two dimensional figure of a beta-barrel membrane protein. I went hunting for programs that might take a sequence and/or structure and produce a pretty looking...
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Setting up NCBI wwwblast on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), Apache 2
Recently I needed to install NCBI wwwblast on my local workstation to enable some software that needed to interface with BLAST via the web service. It was straightforward to install, but I took some...
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Count the number of sequences in a FASTA format file: a Unix shell snippet
Sometimes it’s nice to quickly check how many sequences are in a FASTA format sequence file. It barely warrants it’s own blog post, but here we go anyhow: my one-liner shell script for counting the...
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Stack Exchange sites for science
Recently I’ve noticed the emergence of several Stack Overflow-style sites for science-related questions and answers. For those unfamiliar with Stack Overflow – it’s a question and answer ‘forum’ for...
View ArticleRunning a local JABAWS server for Jalview on Ubuntu (11.04 Natty)
The excellent Jalview sequence alignment visualization and editing tool has the ability to send a set of sequences to a multiple sequence alignment web service (“JABAWS”) and receive the results in a...
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