Thursday, May 26, 2011

PLANdbAffy - a resource for mapping Affymetrix probes

I just discovered PLANdbAffy, which is a handy way to see exactly where Affy probes  are interrogating a gene.

Nurtdinov RN*, Vasiliev MO, Ershova AS, Lossev IS, Karyagina AS.
PLANdbAffy: probe-level annotation database for Affymetrix expression microarrays.
Nucleic Acids Res., 2010, 38 (Database issue): D726-730. PMID: 19906711

Thanks, to all involved!

How to access Time Machine files from Linux UNIX

Found this very handy script that allows you to access a Time Machine created backup, which Apple engineered (almost) too cleverly.

Handy if you want to copy files off of a backup, directly to a linux computer, for example.