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The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

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Lists:

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Useful for bioinformatics geeks:

Science

http://asksci.com/

http://neuroknowledge.net/

http://mathoverflow.net/

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/

http://physics.stackexchange.com/

http://biodiversity.stackexchange.com/

http://sciencestack.com/

Programming

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http://doctype.com/

http://snippetgood.com/

http://fossfaq.com/

http://jquery.pupunzi.com/

http://www.stackbr.com/ (only if you speak Portuguese)

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http://superuser.com/

http://serverfault.com/

Business

http://answers.onstartups.com/

http://ventureiq.stackexchange.com/

http://startups.com/

http://www.askaboutprojects.com/

http://www.explainbusiness.com/

Electronics

http://chiphacker.com/

http://controlsoverload.com/

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/

Is evolution Darwinian or/and Lamarckian?

I found at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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sort -n -r -k4 {yourfile} | less
This little command will sort by hit length a BLAST output formatted with the -m 8 option. If you want to sort by other field, just change the “k” option to a value from 1 to 12. Example, 3 (for identity) or 12 (for score).

AgBase from the Mississippi State University

Great collection of GO tools under the “Tools” link in the left panel.

import syslog

syslog.syslog(1, "test2")

(run)

# cat /var/log/everything/current

Oct 27 01:12:45 [python2.6] test2

JOY :—)

Two great websites for on-line phylogenetic analysis:

Phylemon (http://phylemon.bioinfo.cipf.es/) - From the Bioinformatics Departament at the Centro ed Investigación Principe Felipe.

Phylogenetics.fr (http://www.phylogenetics.fr/) - From the Laboratoire Information Génomique et Structurale at CNRS.

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