Mailund on the Internet

I’m working on a database for our CoalHMM analysis results.  Right now, I’m playing around with different database designs, so I want to play around with the database on my local machine rather than our shared server.

I used to just do this on Linux, but this is the first time I’m playing with MySQL on OS X.

Installing MySQL was pretty painless as you can download a binary package for it.

MySQLdb, the Python module I use to access the database, is a different matter, however.  I couldn’t find any binary packages and the source distribution doesn’t compile out of the box.

Luckily, I am not the first to want to use MySQLdb on a Mac, and a bit of googling found this page.

Worked like a charm, so now I am back to hacking data base designs.

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This paper seems to be the coolest population genetics out in a while:

• Signals of selection in the human genome: important new paper
• Overstating the obvious
• Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations…maybe

I have downloaded it, but I just haven’t had time to read it yet, and probably won’t have time to read it until the weekend.  I’m swamped with work, and I have three journal clubs Thursday and Friday, so the reading I do have time for goes to the papers for those.

I just can’t believe that I am postponing reading this paper to read about fungi genomics, of all things…

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A post at Discovering Biology in a Digital World reminded me of this Weird Al song:

Not that the post is a parody or anything.  It is actually quite serious.

It lists a few of the things we “knew” about the genome, that turned out to be wrong once we improved our measurement technology, such as the ubiquity of structural variation or RNA genes.

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I guess I am morally obliged to point you to EveryONE, PLoSONE’s new blog, seeing as I just joined the editorial board there.

Why a blog and why now? As of March 2009,  PLoS ONE, the peer-reviewed open-access journal for all scientific and medical research, has published over 5,000 articles, representing the work of over 30,000 authors and co-authors, and receives over 160,000 unique visitors per month. That’s a good sized online community and we thought it was about time that you had a blog to call your own. This blog is for authors who have published with us and for users who haven’t and it contains something for everyone.

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I used to play Battle for Wesnoth a lot since it was the only game besides FreeCiv that I could get to run decently on my Linux box.  So I am happy to see that there is now a new version released.

I don’t dare download it just yet, though, as I am far too busy to get caught up in it, and I just know that I will.

I’ll leave it for a holiday or something.

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