Oh man. I was picking up some stuff from stores today and saw a brand new G5 being delivered with an Apple screen. Nice. I wonder who that was for?
Frankly, this is good motivation for me to write those grant applications I’ve been thinking about. I think I should get more into bioinformatics too, largely because you can do a lot of it from behind a desk if you have the tools.
From the BBSRC:
“Bioinformatics can be defined as: the development and use of computational and mathematical methods for the acquisition, archiving, analysis and interpretation of biological information to determine biological functions and mechanisms as well as their applications in user communities.”
Which is pretty broad. I would like to be able to use a lot of the available bioinformatics tools in my cartilage repair research. Being able to use arraying technologies to compare chondrocyte gene expression profiles in different situations, or to identify and analyse new genes or differentially expressed genes seen during repair, disease or (de)differentiation would be useful. I already have some short gene sequences from my PhD that need chasing up. Oh dear. More work.
