Category Archives: Authoring

The Arsenic bacterium. A case of bad scientific communication?

December 4, 2010 – 1:54 am

As you probably heard in the news, two days ago everyone was ablaze for a mysterious announcement from NASA. Speculation started on how the new discovery would “impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” Someone found a habitable planet? Found a message with Seti@HOME? Discovered the primordial soup composition? The buzz resonated and amplified at [...]

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Proofreading!

October 17, 2008 – 9:55 pm

Proofreading is fun. You proofread something with three pair of eyes for a bunch of months. When you believe your manuscript is perfect, you send the stuff to the editor, which after a while returns you the formatted proofs. Then you take the proofs and print them out, and again the three pair of eyes [...]

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Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics

August 27, 2008 – 7:56 pm

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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So you want to write a book?

April 26, 2008 – 11:53 am

So you want to start writing a book? cool. Here is a suggestion I give you: renounce. Still wanting to start writing a book? Second suggestion: renounce. Are you still convinced that you really want to start writing a book? Third suggestion: I’ll give you more suggestion, but remember that start writing a book is [...]

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