01:52:17 *** synthase (n=synthase@69.254.170.145) has joined #bioinformatics 02:02:30 *** synthasee has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 02:11:30 *** ybit has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 02:46:46 Hi 04:59:04 *** kanzure has quit ("Leaving.") 05:07:59 *** synthase has quit (Connection timed out) 05:15:56 *** nordlicht (n=nordlich@141.53.70.85) has joined #bioinformatics 05:56:52 hi 06:37:52 <_dan> morning 06:39:17 I think it is not pretty clear what is the bioinformatics group in Oxford uni 06:39:22 I found the bioinfo master 06:39:47 the computational biology research group 06:40:07 but nothing that I link easily to phD 06:42:49 <_dan> i wasnt even aware oxford had a bioinformatics research group 06:43:08 <_dan> and i worked in oxford for 2 years 06:43:27 http://www.molbiol.ox.ac.uk/ 06:43:45 against http://bioinfomsc.stats.ox.ac.uk/ 06:43:54 <_dan> molbiol isnt really research focused 06:44:03 <_dan> i know, becuase i know the person who used to run it 06:44:09 <_dan> its research support 06:44:12 <_dan> like what i do 06:44:30 but sounds also nice :) 06:44:36 <_dan> yeah well i like it :) 06:44:48 don't they provide phD for that ? 06:44:49 <_dan> means you get to do lots of projects with lots of people on lots og things 06:44:59 * pingou_work likes it :) 06:45:00 <_dan> i dont *think* they do PhD's there 06:45:13 hm 06:45:23 <_dan> the head of the unit doesnt even have a PhD 06:45:24 <_dan> ;) 06:45:27 <_dan> Steve 06:45:28 ^^ 06:45:33 <_dan> I knew him yearss and years ago 06:45:40 yes he is more computer scientist right ? 06:45:41 <_dan> he was the first bioinformatician i ever met 06:45:47 <_dan> in 1993 06:45:56 <_dan> working at Glaxo 06:46:08 nice 06:46:13 <_dan> he had a Silicon Graphics machine on his desk 06:46:29 <_dan> it was at that point I decided that computational biology might be the career for me 06:46:41 <_dan> but i was still an undergrad then 06:46:47 <_dan> so it took me a while to get there :p 06:46:54 ^^ 06:47:19 I will have my Msc in december 06:47:34 but from january starts the big "?" 06:47:38 * _dan nods 06:49:23 is there lot of work on research support ? 06:50:08 <_dan> i've seen several jobs in nature around europe in the last couple of months 06:50:09 Do you have to be a "hard core" programmer ? 06:50:16 <_dan> lol 06:50:17 <_dan> well im not 06:50:19 ^^ 06:50:20 <_dan> so no 06:50:22 <_dan> :p 06:50:40 do you have a phD yourself ? 06:55:37 _dan, Do you think I could ask Steve to meet him ? I will pass by oxford at the beginning of June 07:00:14 *** nsh (n=chatzill@wikipedia/nsh) has joined #bioinformatics 07:02:05 <_dan> pingou_work: yeah i have a PhD 07:02:10 <_dan> but not in bioinformatics 07:02:46 <_dan> pingou_work: Steve is really nice, if you want to speak to some other people in bioinformatics I used to work down the road from the CBRG in another bioinformatics unit, I can put you in touch with them too 07:04:01 * nsh is praying to the gods of PCR 07:05:38 (used up the last of some dna template for a set of sequencing reactions and only used the wrong buffer...) 07:09:04 _dan, I am actually looking for people to meet when I will be there :) 07:09:38 <_dan> pingou_work: pm me your email address and I will send you some details 07:25:04 <_dan> pingou_work: ok you have mail 07:27:55 <_dan> pingou_work: you will also be happy to know i am downloading fedora right now ;) 07:28:10 <_dan> going to convert my OS X PPC cluster this week I think 07:28:35 <_dan> and it looks a bit more polished than the debian port 07:31:40 <_dan> which doesnt appears to support 64 bit addressing on the G5 08:04:10 _dan, you want to convert the cluster to fedora ? 08:05:17 <_dan> pingou_work: yeah 08:05:20 _dan, thanks a ,million for the email ! :D 08:05:49 _dan, there is a new release of Fedora every 6 month ! is it for production ? 08:08:21 <_dan> well production.. not really, we have RHEL and CentOS on the big clusters 08:08:47 <_dan> but just fed up with fighting os x on the server 08:09:29 preupgrade should help you to move for one version to another now 08:09:45 but it has just been released so it might still have some bugs 08:10:22 but if I find it really cool, if you want to keep it up to date it is still quite some work every year 08:11:09 <_dan> my debian/ubuntu machines also require a lot of work as there is no automatic updating ;) 08:11:16 ok ok :) 08:11:25 let me know if I can help ;-) 08:18:12 *** sparta has quit ("http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client") 09:07:27 *** breinbaas has quit (Remote closed the connection) 09:49:24 *** highvoltz has quit (Client Quit) 10:50:45 *** highvoltz (i=rogers@bling.bling.org) has joined #bioinformatics 11:12:37 *** breinbaas (i=er@xs7.xs4all.nl) has joined #bioinformatics 12:43:09 *** Narrenschiff (n=ritchie@mo-rsmitha21.op.umist.ac.uk) has joined #bioinformatics 14:06:22 *** nsh has quit ("this is not good for my blood pressure") 15:10:22 *** nordlicht has quit ("Verlassend") 15:31:00 *** Lynx (n=lynx@tina-10-4.genetik.uni-koeln.de) has joined #bioinformatics 16:00:16 *** Narrenschiff has quit () 16:01:42 *** Lynx_ has quit (Connection timed out) 16:01:42 *** Lynx is now known as Lynx_ 17:05:27 *** convivial (n=convivia@c-98-226-60-25.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #bioinformatics 17:05:33 *** convivial has parted #bioinformatics ("Leaving.") 17:56:20 *** highvoltz has quit (Client Quit) 18:14:22 *** highvoltz (i=rogers@bling.bling.org) has joined #bioinformatics 18:57:14 *** synthase (n=synthase@69.254.170.145) has joined #bioinformatics 19:42:09 *** kanzure (n=bryan@cpe-70-113-54-112.austin.res.rr.com) has joined #bioinformatics 21:05:22 *** highvoltz has quit (Client Quit) 21:05:41 *** highvoltz (i=rogers@bling.bling.org) has joined #bioinformatics 22:51:22 *** orbitz has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 22:53:05 *** synthase has quit (Connection timed out) 23:34:36 *** synthase (n=synthase@69.254.170.145) has joined #bioinformatics