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Here are some notes on the book Producing Open Source Software. The book does an excellent job of explaining how open source projects work and how they deal with typical problems.

Berkeley DB JE and ehcache are two simple libraries for persistent storage of serialized Java objects. How good are they at handling large data sets?

Vivisimo has set up a new site for searching content from life-science-related journals and databases – though none of ours so far.

Looks like simplicity is finally starting to be fashionable.

Biozon is a web server at Cornell that “integrates roughly 2 million protein sequences, 42 million DNA or RNA sequences, 32′000 protein structures, 150′000 interactions and more from sources such as GenBank, UniProt, Protein Data Bank (PDB) and BIND.”

Brief review of Information Dashboard Design : The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few.