Category Archives: Websites

Please donate for the Haiti earthquake

After the recent tragic events in Haiti, it is a priority to help doctors without borders as much as possible. Please donate, even a small amount from a lot of people can make a sizable difference.

Image self consistency from xkcd

I love xkcd. A comic combining fun and math by definition has to be good and geeky and the author, Randall Munroe, is a real genius on this. The latest comic is pretty interesting
The image is self-descriptive, meaning that each graph represents information about the image itself. For example, the first panel contains a pie [...]

Periodic table of videos

I found this very interesting site about the periodic table of elements, from the University of Nottingham. For each element, there’s a video showing the characteristics of the element, and a brief commentary. Worth checking out if you always had some curiosity about the chemical elements, what they look like, and how they behave.
They also [...]

On the Wikipedia fundraising and future plans

Wikimedia fundation is organizing another round of fundraising to support Wikipedia. I wish to remember that the English version currently contains more than 3 millions pages.
Wikipedia is one of the most impressive and revolutionary achievement of the internet crowd. It changed the way culture is made available. Wikipedia is important for all of us. So [...]

Added Twitter

I added Twitter to the blog. It’s a nice toy, and I want to see if it’s actually useful. For brief reports on my status, it seems like a nice thing, and I am having fun using the cellphone to update it.

Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics

I am proud to announce that Springer has finally released on the web (and Amazon as well) the descriptive information of the textbook I took part on: Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics. It was a fantastic and incredible experience, for which I will always be grateful to Dave Ussery, my supervisor at Technical University of [...]

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