Bioinformatics Zen

20% time. Ever heard of it? It’s also called Independent Developer Projects. In a nutshell, if you’re lucky enough to work for Google, apart from all the free food, giant colored balls and Californian weather, you get to spend 20% of your time working on whatever excites you. Related to Google’s aims of course, I doubt you can sit at your desk all day painting bananas red. The blurb on Google Jobs states that Google News, Suggest and Orkut all began as 20% time projects. This blog post is an example

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I wrote previously about using the file system to organise your scripts and data. I use this method and it does help my organisation, but it doesn’t replace a lab book. I want a system that explains the relationships between the different set of results, and shows the outline of my work.

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