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Author Archives: Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio
The genotype space – how does it looks like?
Today, in the metro, I have finally understood what is the form of a genotype space. A genotype space is a representation of all the possible genotypes that can possibly exist, and in which two neighbor points are different only … Continue reading
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“Programming for Evolutionary Biology” course – suggestions for the applicants that have not been accepted
The selection phase for the participants to the “Programming for Evolutionary Biology” course in Leipzig has finished. Congratulations to all the applicants accepted! I am very sorry for the people who have not been accepted, but we have received a … Continue reading
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Origins of Evolutionary Innovations, chapter 3
Here is the third chapter of “Origins of Evolutionary Innovations”! This chapter describes innovations in regulatory systems, and the evolution of networks of transcription factor sites.Wagner chapter 3 View more presentations from Giovanni Dall’Olio. The most important message of this … Continue reading
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Origins of Evolutionary Innovations, chapter 2
Wagner chapter 2 View more presentations from Giovanni Dall’Olio In the second chapter, Wagner discusses the variability of metabolic networks. How do metabolic networks evolve? How many reactions can I remove or add to a metabolic network, without altering its … Continue reading
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Origins of Evolutionary Innovations, chapter 1
We just finished the first session of the book “Origins of Evolutionary Innovations” by A. Wagner, on Chapter 1. Wagner chapter 1 View more presentations from Giovanni Dall’Olio Click on “Continue Reading” to see a resume of this chapter.
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book club on “Origins of Evolutionary Innovations” by A. Wagner
I am organizing a discussion club on the book “Origins of Evoutionary Innovations” by A. Wagner, for my group. Well, I don’t promise anything, but since I will do the effort of producing some presentations anyway, I will also publish … Continue reading
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Programming for Evolutionary Biology Course – Leipzig 2012
This year I will teach in a two-week Introductory course to Programming and Bioinformatics, aimed at PhD students and Post-Docs working in Evolutionary Biology. This is a course designed for researchers that have little or no experience with programming, and … Continue reading
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a script to fetch images from the UCSC browser
The UCSC browser is a nice, useful but “mammoth-ish” bioinformatics tool that despite its web 1.0 aspect, can be a very powerful ally for any bioinformaticians or biologist. I have to admit that for many years I avoided using the … Continue reading
New ways to explore your academic impact
It seems that today, for a strange series of coincidences, is a good day if you wanted new tools to explore your academic impact. First, Google/Scholar Citations has finally been opened to all. Everybody can now create a profile on … Continue reading
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Twitting from the X CRG Symposium on “Computational Biology of Molecular Sequences”
Today and tomorrow I will be attending a symposium organized here in Barcelona, about bioinformatics analysis of molecular sequences. Many well known bioinformaticians will participate, including Temple Smith (the Smith & Waterman algorithm), Amos Baroch from Expasy and Tim Hubbard … Continue reading
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