Mailund on the Internet

Michael suggested that I tried out SVG images instead of antialiasing PNG images for my graphs here.

Well, here goes:

PNG file:

SVG file:

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Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing is a great conference.  I’ve attended it twice, giving tutorials on association mapping, in 2005 and 2006.

Unfortunately, it is in Hawaii.

Unfortunately because it is pretty expensive for me to get there, not because of Hawaii :)

The 2009 is running this week, ending tomorrow, and I have followed it only as suggested by nsaunders. It is not quite the same thing, though.

Still, since the proceeding is online, you can follow it a bit.

Personally, I’ve just finished reading this paper:

TreeQA: Quantitative Genome Wide Association Mapping Using Local Perfect Phylogeny Trees
Feng Pan, Leonard Mcmillan, Fernando Pardo-Manuel De Villena, David Threadgill, and Wei Wang; Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 14:415-426(2009)

I also reviewed the paper when it was submitted, so I knew it already, but it was interesting to read it again. It is a Blossoc like approach, and similar in basics to a paper we have in Genetics:

Local Phylogeny Mapping of Quantitative Traits: Higher Accuracy and Better Ranking Than Single Marker Association in Genomewide Scans
Søren Besenbacher, Thomas Mailund and Mikkel H. Schierup

Genetics. Published Articles Ahead of Print: December 8, 2008, Copyright © 2008
doi:10.1534/genetics.108.092643

I’ve downloaded a few more papers to read for tomorrow.

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I want a simpler theme on my blog, so while I was sitting here waiting for some computations to finish, I have been playing around with themes.  This is what I came up with.

It is much simpler to look at than the old theme.

That’s the good part.

To get to this, I’ve had to remove some of the widgets from the side bars that I usually like.  Such as the DNA Network image showing the resent headlines.  I liked that one, but it had to go to get a cleaner theme.

Instead I’ve added a blogroll so I can check up on e.g. the DNA Network through that.

Now my computations are done, so I’ll have a quick look at it and start up the next batch.  Then it’s off to bed.  I’m getting up in 5 hours…

I was just told about this post.  Apparently, Google is developing its own browser.

It is described in this cartoon that features people I know here from Google in Aarhus such as Lars Bak and Kasper Verdich.

I didn’t know what they were working on.  A lot of them were working on virtual machines for mobile phones and such before going Google, so I thought it was something like, but apparently not.

It’s still virtual machines, though, from what I get from the cartoon.

Ok, I tried my fix to the BiRC webpages, but I am not sure I should have.  After the server process was restarted, all the auto-generated files were gone, and now I don’t know how to get them back.

The good news is that loading the pages will no longer crash your browser.  The gigantic files are the ones that are completely missing now.

The pages without the stylesheets look like crap, though.