Glasgow University Bioinformatics forum

about tomorrow's class

markj — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:30:32 GMT

sorry to ask, but anyone know when will our class begin tomorrow

Overflow?!?!?!?!?

markj — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:12:11 GMT

Hi guys,

Do me need to control overflow in our assessed exercise?

is there anyone who met such problem?

week 8 seminars

Nico — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:26:54 GMT

FORGET WHAT YOU'VE BEEN TOLD. THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IS NOT BLACK AND WHITE. -RALLY FOR PEACE- "A unique opportunity to hear from Israelies and Palestinians sharing a platform, with Charles Kennedy MP" Our biggest event for 2008 - not to be missed! University campuses are overflowing with literature and speakers about the conflict. We know the frustrations and the critiques, but what do AVERAGE Palestinians and AVERAGE Israelis think? Hear from PALESTINIAN ...

ER diagram design software

Nico — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:26:23 GMT

you may find this very useful for drawing:

http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/ppc/erddataflow.htm?id=72123&gclid=CL7tj6Hv5ZYCFQuT1QodfGtMPA

this is a trial version

Anyone interested in this one?

markj — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:30 GMT

Placement & Graduate Recruitment - Week beginning 3 November 2008 Jon Ritchie Sent: 31 October 2008 16:33 To: genannounce@dcs.gla.ac.uk Cc: Jon Ritchie Placement & Graduate Recruitment Week beginning 3 November 2008 Presentations ------------------------ Week beginning 3 November we have two quite different but equally exciting presentations in the Department for summer placement and opportunities . On Tuesday at 5pm (please ...

week 7 seminars

Nico — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:41:22 GMT

I put only the ones I want to go, if you want to go to another lecture, post it: Code:You are invited to attend a lecture on Thursday 6 November at 5.30 pm in the Wolfson Medical School Building, Seminar Room 3 (the Gannochy). The lecture is hosted by the Glasgow Centre for International Development. Dr Enock Matovu, will speak on the subject of "Challenges in Health Care in Uganda". Dr Matovu is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Makerere ...

week 6, I love this university

Nico — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:26:31 GMT

Hi, Only Wei and me are going to the conferences, I hope more people will join us. On Tuesday, prof Milner-White is talking. Very busy week wei!!!! Does somebody know what is TBA?? maybe it is not conferences. Date: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 Time: 1200 hours Title: "DNA damage signalling and repair as a target for cancer therapy" Speaker: Nicola Curtin, Professor of Experimental Cancer Therapeutics, University of Newcastle Venue: The Robertson Trust Lecture ...

Question about our ISD3 exercise

markj — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:46:37 GMT

Hi guys,

I did not understand key very well. In our handout, it is said key should not duplicate. but in our exercise, why AccNo can be duplicated and is also a key?

ISD lecture. Wednesday 29 October.

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:28:46 GMT

Again in the Adam Smith Building?

Remote access

Mike — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:35:06 GMT

Has anyone already tried to use remote access to Doolittle server? If so, what clients and ports did you use? I tried with PuTTY and WinSCP, but failed.

code for lab8

Nico — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:04:46 GMT

Here are my three different classes, including the extension. Code:import FormatIO.*; public class MyDate { private int year=0,month=0,day=0; //first constructor public MyDate(int year,int month,int day) { this.year = year; //class variable (using this) = parameter variable this.month = month; ...

Web-site construction

Mike — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:01:24 GMT

What browsers do you use to test your pages?
Frankly speaking, I'm really tired to test it in IE7. I never use IE in everyday life and can't understand, why my page looks correctly in Opera and Firefox but is awfully distorted in this damned IE!

Friday 11 am. Preliminary session - Sequence Analysis.

Mike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:42:11 GMT

Quote:Dear Class, You will be aware that you the Biological strand of the MRes in Bioinformatics starts on Monday with lectures and labs on Sequence Analysis. There will be a lecture at 9.30m followed by a lab lasting the rest of the day (with breaks and a another lecture at 2pm). This will be the pattern for all the sessions in this section. To ensure that we get off to a good start with no delays due to problems with computer accounts I shall be holding a preliminary session at which ...

Trip to the EBI

Nico — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:24:09 GMT

Hey guys,

Pawel Herzyk needs our names for the trip to the EBI. Put exactly the name you have on your passport, and I will email the list.

Boyd Orr Building

Nico — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:34:47 GMT

Hi guys,

I tried to go to the lab this afternoon, the building is closed. I thought we have a 24hours access to the lab. Does somebody know the opening hours (and days) of the lab?

Thx

Is anyone suggesting any useful websit for XHTML?

markj — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:15:47 GMT

I could not get well organized with what I learnt from ISD lectures

Code for Lab 7 ..

markj — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:36:15 GMT

the code for lab 7 and lab 7 extension exercise is a little different, So I will post them in different color (blue for lab7 and biolet for extension) import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import FormatIO.*; public class Lab7 { public static void main(String[] arg){ Console con = new Console(); boolean draw = true; while(draw){ //is that better to put the question after finishing the task? con.println("Do you want to draw a box?"); String ...

Forthcoming Seminars & Events from the Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences

markj — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:52:07 GMT

From: Joanne Pencovitch To: ibls-seminar@bio.gla.ac.uk Cc: Bcc: JIAO WEI Date: 10/16/08 12:49 pm Subject: Forthcoming Seminars & Events from the Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences Attachments: ~~~ S E M I N A R S ~~~ Date: TODAY Time: 1800 hours Title: "Viruses, Vaccines, Pandemics and Paranoia" Speaker: Professor David Onions Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre Organiser: The Inaugural Professor James ...

Literature review

Nico — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:37:52 GMT

I have booked for that, if somebody wants to join: Quote:Title: Literature Review Advice Research Council Skills Category: E Speaker: Ms Alison Faichney, University Library Code: PGO01 Date: Monday 20th October, 10am-1pm Location: Wolfson Room, Level 3, University Library Target Group: All research students and contract research staff Description: A “drop-in” session in the Library to discuss search and database options for those who are conducting a literature review at ...

MCB Internal Divisional Seminars

markj — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:50:54 GMT

MCB Internal Divisional Seminars Tuesdays 1 - 2 pm, Davidson Lecture Theatre Date Responsible group 14-Oct Professor Hugh Nimmo 21-Oct Dr Nia Bryant 28-Oct Professor James Milner-White 04-Nov Dr Matt Dalby 11-Nov Dr Ari Sadanandom 18-Nov Dr Kevin O'Dell 25-Nov Dr Mark Bailey 02-Dec Dr Iain Johnstone 09-Dec Dr Susan Rosser 13-Jan Dr Chris McInerny 20-Jan Professor Marshall Stark 27-Jan Dr Joel Milner 03-Feb Professor Gwyn ...

FWD: Seminar of this week(Tuesday and Friday)

markj — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:39:28 GMT

_________________________________ Tomorrows seminar will be presented by: Allan James & Jose Monreal ( from Prof Hugh Nimmo's group) 'The time of our lives! Investigating the circadian clock in Arabidopsis roots' Tuesday 14th October 1-2pm Davidson Lecture Theatre <> All welcome! __________________________________ THIS WEEK’S SEMINAR will be presented by Dr David Owen Cambridge Institute of Medical Research ...

Class Test - Wednesday October 22nd

Mike — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:04:56 GMT

Quote:We will be holding a class test for the MSc IT and MRes Bioinformatics students on Wednesday 22 October between 1400-1700 in Boyd-Orr Lecture Theatre E. Please put the date, time and venue in your diary now. The main purpose of the class test will be for you to have some early formative feedback as to how you are getting on with the material in the Programming and Information Systems and Databases courses (MSc IT/ MRes Bioinformatics students) and in the Systems and Networks course ...

Did you see this in your email box. get £20 for free!

markj — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:53 GMT

Dear All, We are about to start a trial of a mobile game and we are looking for people who want to play. You will play it for two weeks and will be paid £20. The winner will receive an additional £20 as well. The trial will start on the 15th of October and end on the 30th of October. The game is played on mobile phones that will be supplied to you. The game is called Eye-Spy. Everyday, you will sync the game which will upload your score and download tags. Tags are pictures or text ...

First post!

markj — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:11:37 GMT

Hi everyone, I am Wayne.
Since this is the fist post.
Just want to say wish all of us could make a good result at the end of this programme.
Good luck For all!

Code for Lab 6 (discussing)

markj — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:33:22 GMT

the code for Lavb 6 seems to be much less than Lab 5 import java.util.*; //import java.lang.*; //not necessary to use java.lang.* here? import FormatIO.*; public class Lab6 { public static void main(String[] arg){ //get a random number //compare the input number with the random number //make comment if the input number is too high or too law //stop guessing if the number is right //print out the number of steps; int step; int game = 0; double ...

English and Study Skills (ESS)

Mike — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:57:28 GMT

http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/languagecentre/efl/in-sessionalcourses/#d.en.9938

Lab 5 code

markj — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:24:09 GMT

Hi guys, It's my solution to Lab5. Hope it's not bad. Waiting for your comments import FormatIO.*; public class Lab5 { //Exercise for week2 /extension exercise for Lab4 //input the name of item //if item name equal "battery", "lightbulb", or "torch" //print out the price of each item and asked the user to enter the number //in other cases, ask the user to input the cost for each item and number of items //calculate the cost ...

Introductory Course_Part3 Fri 3rd

markj — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:18:14 GMT

time: 2-5pm
location:Anatomy Large Lecture Theatre, Thomson Building
description:
*ownership of scientific ideas
*the value of scientific society membership
*science outreach
*src
*careers service

PHOSPHOINOSITIDE SIGNALING IN PLANTS

markj — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:31:58 GMT

Message sent on behalf of Professor Mike Blatt:

************ SPECIAL RESEARCH SEMINAR ***************

Dr. Mary Williams
(Harvey Mudd College, California)
PHOSPHOINOSITIDE SIGNALING IN PLANTS

Wednesday, 15th October 2008 4 pm
Bower Seminar Room

Talk - Myths and Reality of CyberCrime

Mike — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:10:08 GMT

Hi, guys! Quote:Everyone is welcome to attend this talk. This talk is part of a collaborative effort between DCS and HATII for the MSc program in Computer Forensics & E-Discovery. 01 October 2008 - Room 423 Sir Alwyn William Building - 1 to 2 PM Myths and Reality of CyberCrime by Prof Christopher W. Johnson Companies and regulatory organisations are investing heavily in detecting and protecting themselves against CyberCrime. However, there are very few public ...

week 2 timetable

Nico — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:51:04 GMT

To let you know, the room of the IT programming class of tomorrow has changed: Quote:Dear all, Tomorrow's IT Programming lecture and tutorial (30 Sep, 1000-1200) will take place in Seminar Room 1 (Yudowitz Seminar Room) of the Wolfson Medical School Building (C8 on the campus map: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_1887_en.pdf). Regards, David Manlove MSc IT Programming course co-ordinator and on Friday: we have a lecture from 2-5 pm, see the compulsory introduction ...

Lab4 code ...........

markj — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:07:10 GMT

I should say it's not a smart way to solve the problem . Hope anyone who is interested chould post their code as well Code:public static void main(String[] arg){ int itemNum = 0; double perCost = 0.0; String itemName =""; boolean numValid = false; boolean costValid = false; ...

The meeting this afternoon at 14:00

markj — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:48:59 GMT

does anybody knows if we should attend that meeting? (for all new research students)
14:00 at Lecture Theatre 1 , Graham Kerr Building

Meeting and address

Nico — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:41:26 GMT

Hi,

I think we have a meeting today at 4.30 pm for all MRes students, does somebody know the location?

other point, do you manage to enter your account at this address? https://owa2.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

Presentation of Nicolas

Nico — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:22:07 GMT

Hello, The first message to know a little bit more about all of us. So I am French, I am from Marseille, South. I have first studied law, then I studied Biology, Computer Science and Mathematics during three years. After that, I have done an Honours in Biology with IT at the University of Paisley (Scotland). I had different placements in laboratories: - I developed an Intranet prototype for the medical information department of the Conception Hospital of Marseilles ...

Lecture about HIV prevention at the medical school

Nico — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:13:29 GMT

Code:Dear colleague, You are invited to attend a lecture on Thursday 2 October at 5.30 pm at the University of Glasgow, in the Wolfson Medical School Building, Seminar Room 3 (the Gannochy). The lecture is hosted by the Glasgow Centre for International Development. Professor David Ross, Professor of Epidemiology and International Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, will speak on the topic of HIV prevention among young people in ...