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	<title>Nick Crawford</title>
	<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com</link>
	<description>Evolution and more...</description>
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		<title>MultiMarkdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I started using github in a serious way back in January I've begun writing my documentation in the  markdown format that displays so nicely on github. Markdown is essentially a parsing tool and a simple text syntax that allows the easy conversion of human 'readable text' to html. It's intuitive, it took less than 5 minutes to pick up, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2010/06/09/multimarkdown/</link>
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		<title>Vertebrate Zoology: Bi302</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Vertebrate Zoology lab (Bi302 Lab).  I'll be using this portion of my website to post notes/slides and to answer your questions.  Please make use of the comments. More to come.
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		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2010/01/22/vertebrate-zoology-bi302/</link>
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		<title>40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data &#124; FlowingData</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This looks incredibly useful.  I really need to sit down and learn Flash and Processing.
40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data &#124; FlowingData.
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		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/12/16/40-essential-tools-and-resources-to-visualize-data-flowingdata/</link>
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		<title>Wallace&#8217;s Insect Collection Found!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via the New York Times

The owner wanted a sum that far exceeded Mr. Heggestad’s budget — a colossal $600. “I was just out of law school, I had no money and no business buying it,” he said. But the owner was willing to take installments of $100 a month, and into Mr. Heggestad’s possession fell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/11/25/wallaces-insect-collection-found/</link>
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		<title>Blue Collar Bioinformatics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to recommend Blue Collar Bioinformatics a slick blog with lots of useful bioinformatics scripts.  Everything is written in python and the full working source is typically available on GIT.
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		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/11/22/blue-collar-bioinformatics/</link>
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		<title>Academia vs. Business via XKCD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So true.

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		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/11/18/academia-vs-business-via-xkcd/</link>
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		<title>Targeted Sequencing Bags a Rare Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This looks neato. One of the first papers to use the Agilent Tech to do targeted re-sequencing.  I can't wait to get my hands on a PDF.
The impressive economy of this paper is that they targeted (using Agilent chips) less than 30Mb of the human genome, which is less than 1%. They also worked with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/11/17/targeted-sequencing-bags-a-rare-disease/</link>
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		<title>F$@%ing R: Adventures with Tcltk in OSX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've got a bunch of RNA-seq reads I need to analyze and for the the most part I've been writing my own code to do the analysis.  However, a recent paper in BioInformatics (Wang et al. 2009) describes a new R package for the identification of differentially expressed genes in RNA-seq datasets.  R is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/10/28/fing-r-adventures-with-tcltk/</link>
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		<title>Thanks for a great term</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to thank my students, all ~44 of you, for putting up with my stammering explanations of genetics.  I sure learned a ton and I hope you did too.  Good luck with your finals.
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		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/04/30/thanks-for-a-great-term/</link>
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		<title>RegEx to id comma-space(s) or space(s) delimited text</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not all that great at RegEx, but I needed split a line of text on commas followed by spaces and/or by spaces (including tabs).  30 minutes later after swearing and sweating with iPython, I produced the following little expression.  Who needs the CSV module?
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re.compile&#40;',(?:\s*)&#124;\s*'&#41;
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Example Usage:
line = 'one, two three    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ngcrawford.com/2009/04/30/regex-to-id-comma-spaces-or-spaces-delimited-text/</link>
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