Archive for July, 2008
Options for personal study wikis on Mac
I participated in a great Twitter conversation yesterday about studying and notetaking tools. I have my surgical second part coming up in 2011 (ugh). Last time I studied for an exam (2002, if you believe it), I used Word documents organised in folders to make my summaries. My life has changed since [...]
Geneious performs DNA and RNA sequence analysis (Free)
It doesn’t come up in my research work, but RNA and DNA analysis is a key tool in a lot of medical research. Geneious is a free utility that combines protein and DNA sequence tools into a program that runs on most major operating systems.
Features include:
Organise and visualise sequences, with phylogenetic mapping
integrated with external [...]
Four great studying links
Here are four interesting sites I have been reading in the last week. I read these with my “studying” hat on.
Productivity 101 has a great post about tracking habits. Basically, tracking habits is about changing who you are one step at a time. There is a discussion about different techniques, and some [...]
Grand Rounds up at GruntDoc
I am a bit late on this post, but medical grand rounds is being hosted this week by GruntDoc. It is the 200th edition of the famous Grand Rounds.
Take a look, it is worth it for GruntDoc’s interesting commentary.
How to use your iPhone to keep a patient list
The App store has opened in a huge fanfare, but we are yet to see any patient information managers. They will come, but probably at a premium. However, the software built in to an iPhone is sufficient to keep your patient list up to date, and backed up. Furthermore, there will be no [...]