Bio::Blogs #3

By evolgen on September 1, 2006.

Bio::Blogs #3 has been posted at business|bytes|genes|molecules. Bio::Blogs is a blog carnival that deals with computational biology. Next month's edition will be hosted by Sandy. If you write something about computational biology this month, send a link to her.

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