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About a week and half ago, classes began at Wayland.  I have also started my one day a week position at Texas Tech.  For those who may not know, I took a bit of a sabbatical from teaching, without knowing at the time that it was a sabbatical.  It had been my intention to try [...]

We are utilizing a new technology in our lab.  The GeXP, among other things, provides a resource for the confirmation of MicroArray data. 
Basically, microarrays measure the level of expression for tens of thousands of genes on a single slide for a given sample.  In many cases, a small sample of this data that [...]

I am being introduced to a side of research that is making me more and more uncomfortable.  I know it’s probably hard to believe but I’ve made it all the way through a Ph.D. program and didn’t see a lick of the hoarding of information, especially like I see it now in the field [...]

What I learned this week #2
I am still in the phase of my new job where I am inundated with new information every day.  Every so often I just get overwhelmed with the number of different ways to do something, whether it’s the number of tools available for the job or even the number [...]

I finally managed to get a glimpse of the big picture when it comes to fiber research. It may seem fairly obvious now but for some reason, I was too immersed in the A’s, G’s, T’s and C’s of the genetic code and hunting for their patterns, that I forgot to ask the big [...]

What I learned this week #1:
Another week has transpired at my new job as a researcher at TTU and I am being inundated with all sorts of new information. For one thing, I have folks milling around behind my workstation doing all sorts of laboratory things, freezing things in liquid nitrogen (or something else [...]

One of the broadest definitions of bioinformatics that I have come across was in Sorin Draghici’s book, Data Analysis Tools for DNA MicroArrays.
Def: Bioinformatics is the science of refining biological information into biological knowledge using computers.
Under the heading of bioinformatics is a wide variety of different fields of study with a lot of problems under [...]

I’ve taken a post-doctoral research position in Bioinformatics at Texas Tech University. I am going into full-time research for a while. I have decided that the next step in my career is to pursue a larger commitment to research. That doesn’t mean I am completely done with education. I have developed an online College Algebra course for Wayland and will teach as an adjunct for its Virtual Campus. I hope to continue this indefinitely but we’ll just have to see how well such a course will work.[...]