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Pawsitively prehistoric

From DNAZoo – Thu, 21 May 2026 12:21:04 GMT

First described from Laos in 2005, the Laotian rock rat Laonastes aenigmamus quickly gained fame as one of the most remarkable “living fossil” discoveries in modern mammalogy. A. Abramov (Zoological I...

Organic

From Dave Tang's blog – Fri, 08 May 2026 19:15:12 +0000

<p>When I hear the word organic, two thoughts immediately come up: organic search and organic chemistry. The latter comes up because it is ingrained in me that organic chemistry is one of the hardest ...

Installing Python libraries within virtualenv

From avrilomics – 2026-04-28T01:47:00.000-07:00

<p>&nbsp;Today I learnt how to install Python libraries in a virtual environment (in my case, on the Sanger compute farm), using&nbsp;<a href="https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/">virtualenv</a>.</p...

Workshop alert! Mastering Reproducible Enrichment Analysis

From Genome Spot – 2026-04-23T11:00:00.002+10:00

<p>&nbsp;Join us for a 2-part workshop on Mastering Reproducible Enrichment Analysis! 📊</p> <p>Presented by Anusuiya Bora and myself, with a focus on reproducibility and best practices.</p> <p>📅 When:...

The AI Rewrite Dilemma

From Heng Li's blog – 2026-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

<p>There have been multiple ongoing efforts (see Appendix below), and <strong>debates</strong>, regarding porting bioinformatics tools to Rust. These include two rewrites of minimap2. Here are some of...