New Text Book
Enzyme Kinetics for Systems Biology is a modern text book for undergraduate classes or as a reference text in systems and synthetic biology. The text covers all the main topics in enzyme kinetics including chapters on the kinetics of gene expression and generalized rate laws. Available now at the special price of only $39.95. Purchase at Amazon Special student and bulk order prices available at blog.analogmachine.org
Category Archives: General Interest
New 17 million-digit prime number
Recent news announced the discovery of a new Mersenne prime. What was interest was the response I saw on some of the boards that where reporting this news, for example: “but can someone explain how digging up mersene prime numbers … Continue reading
Fuzzy Fonts Gone
Embarcardero has had some difficulties in releasing issue free versions of their new cross-platform development tool XE2. One of the most visible was the inability to display clear fonts in controls. Most noticeable was the TMemo control which can be used to … Continue reading
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Crowd Funding: Microryza
There is a new crowd funding site has just started that specializes in funding research. Called Microryza, the organization aims to focus on funding risky research projects or educational outreach efforts. Yours truly submitted one of the first projects (no affiliation to the … Continue reading
Nature Precedings Closes
I just received an email this morning telling me that Nature Precedings (Nature’s preprint service) is closing down at the beginning of April, 2012. Shame on you Nature. No reason was given. This is what happens I supose when we … Continue reading
Analog Computers
Although I was brought up on digital computers I have quite a soft spot for analog computers. I used to have an old web page that had some notes and pictures plus some rare analog construction notes that I copied … Continue reading
Standards in Synthetic Biology: Part 2
The Synthetic Biology Open Language – SBOL I am pleased to announce the release of the draft specification of SBOL 1.0. The current draft defines a standard way to describe in a hierarchical manner a DNA strand and associated information. Once the draft is finalized in … Continue reading
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Scientists Patent the Scientific Method
There has been a lot of talk in the news about the patent office awarding obvious or frivolous patents. I recently came across this one awarded to Palsson, Covert and Herrgard. I only read the abstract which is given here: “The present invention provides … Continue reading
Taxes, how much we pay
I know this isn’t the place to talk about taxes, there are plenty of sites that do that already but I’d like to tell readers about something that happened during my trip to Indiana University at Bloomington last week. To … Continue reading
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