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Without Humph?.

Aaagh. Haven’t used ffmpeg much and it took me a good 20 mins of searching to figure out why -acodec mp3, as recommended on many howtos kicking about the place, kept giving me an unknown encoder error.
It isn’t unknown, it’s just that the incantation has been changed: -acodec libmp3lame
Sigh…I will never get those [...]

The Rheological Properties of Turkish Delight
A paper investigating the gloopiness (“Structural and thermal properties”) of Turkish Delight at different temperatures. It is, apparently, a non-newtonian pseudoplastic foodstuff.
Seriously. There are people out there being paid to squidge Turkish Delight (or ‘TD’ as they call in the paper, presumably because nothing sounds more sciency than gratuitous [...]

From ensembl-dev mailing list: advice on how to get the current list of all ensembl species:
List lives in the compara database and can be retrieved directly with something like:

mysql -u anonymous -h ensembldb.ensembl.org -P 5306 ensembl_compara_52 \
-e “SELECT name FROM genome_db”;

Or you can do essentially the same query via the Perl API:

use Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry;
my [...]

Am trying out Spotify : big online music library, build your own playlists, & so on. Like LastFM or Pandora but with more music and fewer limits on what you can play and how often you can play it. Funded by (so far, fairly unobtrusive) advertising (you can pay £10ish/month for no adverts).
Windows [...]

Problem:
Dataset 1: ChIPseq-derived transcription factor binding sites. Mouse. Mapped to nearest Ensembl Gene ID,
Dataset 2: Human Illumina Ref6 expression array data (GPL6097, I think) from various cell lines with varying amounts of said transcription factor.
Question:
What are the targets of the transcription factor doing in the expression datasets?
Quick Mapping
As a quick approximation, map the Illumina human [...]

…is this thing on?