As part of my drive to get more of my work published as open source downloads (see software tab above) I have been busy tiding up some of my python scrips. Mostly this has just involved going back over them and adding notes (something I should have done from the Read more…
One key feature of the xBAM project I’m working on is cost. Normal BAMs retail for about £100k and I want to make a BAM for just £8k. In the Lego BAM, I used the Mindstorms package as a control system, but this is wholly unsuitable as it is expensive, Read more…
As you have almost certainly just read in my last blog post on OpenOptics, I am leaving Cranfield University for as-of-yet unknown future places. I was aware some months back that my contract was coming to an end so I have already started looking/applying for post-Doc positions but these will Read more…
As you may have gathered by my not very oblique references and down right obvious twittering, I have been busy working on a new project over the last few weeks. The project is in its early stages and at this point, I am mostly checking that my data is real Read more…
A long time ago in a lab about 20 miles away, I was working for a company called Mediwatch to develop a new micro-array platform that was internally named Zero-flow. It was a nifty little device that was excellent at controlling the flow of a sample over a sensor system. Read more…
A few weeks back, I asked the community at large for advice on where to go to set up an online open lab book. The response was fantastic and I have a whole list of places to look to for online support. However, before I jump in to the deep Read more…
Sorry about this but there is no proper blog post sorted for this week. My free time this week has been spent dabbing a small child with calamine lotion after he declared on sunday morning that he “feels a bit itchy’. Normally when my free time/personal life is a bit Read more…
Those who don’t care about data processing might want to look away now. I’d like to think this post will be engaging for many different people and the work I discuss is highly transferable but let’s be honest – if you aren’t interested in getting more information out of data, Read more…
The idea that innovation in science comes only from a dry study of journal papers and very slow iterative research is just simply not true. I start with this statement because I have lost track of the number of times I see this idea come up in conversations, newspapers and Read more…
I still plan on doing a detailed follow up to my previous post about fiber optics and their history but, in the mean time I have made a nice little infographic with some interesting facts about fiber optics, enjoy! (click on it to make it larger).