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Getting Started with Discovery Environment

Discovery Environment is an online platform for running bioinformatics applications and analyzing data. It’s provided for free by CyVerse (previously known as iPlant Collaborative – www.cyverse.org), a project by the National Science Foundation, USA to develop computing infrastructure for life science research. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to sign up for an account and start using Discovery Environment.

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BBC News – Six of world's top 20 universities are in UK.

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The Science of Scientific Writing » American Scientist.

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Here’s an Addendum to our recent paper in PLOS One about horizontal gene transfer in Colletotrichum:
New insights into the evolution and structure of Colletotrichum plant-like subtilisins (CPLSs).

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Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence?.

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Spray, Poison, Eat: Glyphosate (Roundup) In Our Food By Colin Todhunter.

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Reproducibility: Six red flags for suspect work : Nature : Nature Publishing Group.

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Is it me or does this sound like a really, really bad idea???

U.S. Lawmaker Proposes New Criteria for Choosing NSF Grants – ScienceInsider.