Getting Started with Microbiome Analysis: Sample Acquisition to Bioinformatics

Getting started in Bioinformatics

Editorial Message: Several times a month, people that want to get started in the field of Bioinformatics contact me, looking for a job, a student position or a connection to someone else who has a job or postdoc opening. This is to be expected, perhaps. After the dot-com crash a few years ago, people were leaving the Internet and telecom fields in droves to get retrained. The ‘Next Big Thing’ t...

Getting Started In PC-Based Data Acquisition

I hate to use clichés, but suppliers of data acquisition system (DAS) products need a reality check. Too commonly educated in electrical or software engineering, we pack our sales material with technical jargon only persons with a similar background can understand. This is great for impressing the competition, but we leave many potential customers drifting in our wake. Too often, the customer f...

Getting started with SMV

MODEL IMPLEMENTION COMPONENT REFINEMENT MAPS Figure 1: Re nement maps interfaces and structures in the low-level design. This makes it possible to verify small parts of the low-level design in the context of the abstract model. Thus, the proof obligations can be reduced to a small enough scale to be veri ed by model checking. SMV supports this methodology by allowing one to specify many abstrac...

Getting Started with Sequencel

Getting started with tables

BACKGROUND Tables are often overlooked by many readers of papers who tend to focus on the text. Good tables tell much of the story of a paper and give a richer insight into the details of the study participants and the main research findings. Being confident in reading tables and constructing clear tables are important skills for researchers to master. METHOD Common forms of tables were consi...