Online bioinformatics tools and resources

I've updated my collection of online resources for genomics, sequence analysis and phylogeny - click here or on the "BioInfo" tab above.

These are all the tools that I use regularly in my work, so they're geared towards comparative genomics (mostly vertebrates), gene and protein predictions, sequence alignment and editing as well as different methods and applications for phylogenetic analyses. If you think there's a great resource out there that's missing, let me know in a comment below! I first put the page together for the people in my lab so that we could share all the same tools, but now it's more or less our informal start page. It's fantastic that so many researchers have developed all these great methods and are willing to make them freely accessible online. My work would certainly be impossible without that spirit of cooperation and openness. It does warm the heart to be part of a scientific field and a culture where this is the norm rather than the exception.

Download and use my animal pictures!

For a couple of years now I've been making these animal illustrations whenever I've needed a picture for a publication, a poster or a presentation. Pretty soon people in my lab wanted to use them in their presentations as well, so I thought I'd let everyone use them freely and not just my colleagues. If we have the need for them, I'm sure others do to. I've been planning to "release" them for quite some time but I just never got around to it.

Click on Download Illustrations on the tab at the top of the page and go crazy! I've put them under a Creative Commons license to make sure that you can use them as freely as possible (with some reservations).

I'm a grumpy old man

At least according to the word analysis at http://urlai.com/url/egosumdaniel.blogspot.com.

egosumdaniel.blogspot.com is probably written by a male somewhere between 66-100 years old. The writing style is academic and upset most of the time.

Yeah, so, what else is new?