Posted by Jason Morrison | Apr 16th, 2008

Mephisto to WordPress

An easy way to import a Mephisto blog into WordPress is by using a Python script for extracting a WordPress-friendly WXR file from Mephisto (which can be imported via the WordPress web admin interface), which eventually worked like a charm. I had to modify it to use MySQL, and to look at a different date field for publication (my Mephisto install was returning Null in the field m2wp.py was looking at). ...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Apr 16th, 2008

Biological Simulation Languages

From the “publishing old drafts for kicks” department, some interesting notes on Biological Simulation Languages: SPim Efficient, Correct Simulation of Biological Processes in the Stochastic Pi-calculus http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2447 The little b language: shared models built from reusable parts http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2671 BioComputing resources from Luca Cardelli http://lucacardelli.name/BioComputing.htm

Posted by Jason Morrison | Apr 14th, 2008

Bricklet announcement

Mac Cowell and I have been working on a new project, coined Bricklet. Bricklet is an open and extensible platform for storing and sharing standardized synthetic biology parts with the goal of fostering a rich ecosystem of synthetic biology software. <p>Bricklet currently consists of:</p> <ul> <li>A proposal for a <a href="http://bricklet.org/part-description-language/">Part...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Apr 7th, 2008

BarCampRochester3

Last weekend, I has the pleasure to attend BarCampRochester which was a great time. Thanks to the organizers and sponsors for making this happen! <p>I gave a session that introduced <a href="http://www.syntheticbiology.org/">synthetic biology</a>, <a href="http://www.igem.org">iGEM</a>, their motivations, and surrounding issues. I&#8217;ve uploaded my slides in <span class="caps">PDF</span>...