Bioinformatics Zen

The title says it all. I was hoping to release this a month ago, but standardising the survey data was a bigger effort than I anticipated. Finally though, you can download the results in CSV format from Github. If you don’t know what CSV format is, don’t worry as the file should open in Excel, OpenOffice.org, or any spread sheet application you care to point at it. The only other thing you need to know is this data is released under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-a-like, Non-commercial license, if you need to know what this licensing means you can read the full explanation.

That’s it in a nutshell, the details about sharing and posting results can be found on Open Wet Ware, including some example analyses I’ve posted.

Collaborating on the same document

Tom, Dick, and Harry are collaborating on a paper. Tom, being the PhD student, does all the work and then writes the paper. Tom then sends a copy to Dick and Harry who edit it with their opinions. Unfortunately Dick completely removes the second paragraph of the discussion, while Harry expands it. Both then send their edited copies back to Tom.

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