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 $45.95. Purchase at Amazon
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Category Archives: General Science Interest
Python – first experiences
I’ve started using Python much more these days as I begin to switch to Tellurium as the standard modeling platform. Python is of course very popular and so I expected a very modern language which to a large degree it … Continue reading
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Science Funding in the US
I saw today (14th Jan, 2014) in the news that Congress has come to an agreement on the budget to Sept 30, 2014. The Huffington Post had an article which discussed the effect of cuts on the NIH. In particular … Continue reading
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New preprint service at bioRxiv
A new preprint service called bio-archive and operated by Cold Spring Harbor has opened that is specifically for biologists. What’s nice is that they also accepts papers on systems biology, bioinformatics, and synthetic biology. This is a welcome addition especially after … Continue reading
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ORCID – Finally I am Unique
It’s taken some time but it looks like there is now a viable unique identification system for researchers. No longer will John Smith’s h-index apparently be 459. ORCID which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a non-proprietary code to uniquely … Continue reading
Whole Cell Models
We’ve seen in the last couple of years increased interest in building whole cell models, that is computer models that attempt to simulate a whole organism. The most recent attempt was by Karr et al, published in Cell, 2012, 150(2), … Continue reading
Filming Paramecium bursaria
I got myself a camera attachment from AmScope for the relatively cheap microscope I have (A OMAX 40X-2000X Digital Binocular Biological Compound Microscope – find it on Amazon). I used my wife’s Cannon 3Ti to take the video. Got some … Continue reading
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According to Science Mag, Amps are Volts!
I saw a recent article in Science mag about using electric shocks to boost mental abilities. Interesting article in itself but what really caught my attention was this sentence: “The electrical current slowly ramped up to about 1 milliamp—a tiny … Continue reading
Synthetic Biology: It’s an analog world
I significant paper on synthetic biology got published this week by an innovative group from MIT (Daniel et al). Read our News and Views article that discusses the importance of the paper.
Linear Dynamics Application
There are a number of online apps that can show students the phase plane dynamics of a 2d system. Notable examples include: Phase Portrait Viewer from the d’Arbeloff Interactive Math Project – requires Java installed Wolfram Phase Portrait Viewer – … Continue reading