Free, easy, quick, great PDF creation: Try OpenOffice

keywords: free software, opensource, OpenOffice, grantwriting
I try to give credit where credit is due.
I have written before about using OpenOffice (version 2.4) for “real professional work.” In an earlier post, I wrote about successfully writing an entire grant application using OpenOffice for wordprocessing and figure creation in conjuntion with Zotero for references (and the grant [...]

Bioinformatics: Sequence Alignment Is Central…?

Keywords: Illumina, Sequence Alignment, algorithms, teaching, next-generation sequencing
I haven’t posted in a while; I have been busy teaching bioinformatics. I do receive an occasional email or question about learning bioinformatics, so why don’t I just write what I taught here?
Here, at least, was my thinking on the subject. Remember that I was teaching second year [...]

Free Multiplatform Reference Management? Try Zotero

Mark Bieda zotero references computer software citations
You use Endnote, refman, or one of the others. You want a free alternative because (1) you don’t want to worry about licensing issues (like buying a new copy for each computer) (2) you want something that will run under windows, linux, and mac os x (3) you just [...]