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Two degrees of co-authorship
I remember a piece of dialogue, which I have seen in at least two different movies (can’t remember which ones, though). It went roughly like this: First guy (mostly harmless wannabe-gangster): “Hi, my...
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Turning (part of) the proteasome on its head
I am a bit short on time, but I have seen that the Glickman paper on the proteasome base structure has finally appeared in print – this event should not go unnoticed. Before I begin to discuss the...
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Is it research? Or just data analysis?
Genome Technology blogs about the genome sequencing of Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum, which appears to be an early-branching archaeon. Probably very interesting, although archaea are rarely the...
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Search engines
Everybody seems to be blogging about new search engines these days. Most of them discuss the new CUIL search, which I found mostly disappointing. But so did everybody else. Over the last months, I have...
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Chaperone-mediated autophagy
Nature Medicine is not one of the journals I usually follow. Today, several of my literature alerting services – and several press releases as well – pointed to a paper in the AOP section of Nature...
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Microarrays may be bad, but not that bad.
I normally do not blog about topics related to my daytime job, which involves a lot of microarray data analysis. However, a series of recent blog posts [here, here and here] talk about...
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Ubiquitin on Lake Garda, reloaded
Hardcore readers of this blog might remember my reports on the EMBO conference “Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like modifiers in cellular regulation” in September 2007 in Riva del Garda. See e.g. here, here,...
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Eugene Koonin direct
I have just read the blog post by Derek Lowe ‘Publishing your work the Easy Way‘, which covers the case of M.S. El Naschie, who is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals and...
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The perils of having foreign co-authors… (just kidding)
Here is what communication problems can do for you: This morning, I had a phone conversation with a scientist abroad, talking about a joint paper project. At the end, we agreed on who was going to...
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Submission time again
Four years since my last post, just pretending nothing happened since then … Just trying to submit a manuscript online and struggling with the online submission system at Cell press – probably the same...
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