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Displaying posts tagged: research
Papers is an application to help you find, organise, read, and search all those PDFs that you accumulate during research. It is written by two nerds—sorry, scientists—in the Netherlands (and now UK), and won an Apple Design Award in 2007.
“Great, I found the article I was looking for! But wait, what’s this? I can only see the abstract? Oh yeah, I forgot to log into the proxy.”
Summary: Attached is a pure Ruby implementation of the AS66 algorithm (Hill 1973), ported from the Fortran code available here. It estimates the integral of the normal distribution, defaulting to the area under the right tail.
Summary: Attached is a diff that allows Bio::FlatFileIndex to access BDB flatfile databases created by BioPerl’s Bio::DB::Flat. I have not changed the way BioRuby creates its databases, so this likely breaks access to BioRuby-created flatfile indices.
