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- Papers in Nature
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Papers in Nature, nothing new you would say, except when papers means our Papers. In the May 1st issue of Nature magazine you'll find the news article "Programs promise to end paper-chase" which prominently features our award-winning pdf organizer along with some quotes from yours truly. During the interview we talked quite a bit more, including what happened since the last time we appeared in Nature. Hopefully we can find some time to write a bit more on that here soon. | Nature article | Papers webpage >>
- 01 May '08 | Category: Programs
- Quo Vadis Papers? See you in Boston!
We'll be in Boston next week to give a workshop on the Quo Vadis conference at Harvard medical school. The Count way library has invited us to give a talk about Papers as well, so if you're interested in hearing more about Papers from the horse's mouth, if you have questions you always wanted to ask or just want to say hi, feel free to join us next wednesday May 7th at 13 in the Countway Library room 403. | Countway Library >>- 07 May '08 | Category: Events
- Papers goes gamma!
We aim to continuously improve Papers, fixing many small bugs and adding polish wherever possible. Today we announce the availability of Papers 1.8, which comes with the most popular plugin under gamma scientists. In collaboration with the folks at JSTOR you can now search this repository right from within Papers. This update also brings a plugin for Elsevier's Scopus repository, making another high quality resources available in a way never seen before. Head over to the Papers web page and have fun with version 1.8! | Papers 1.8 >>- 11 Apr '08 | Category: Programs
- Disctop gets a shiny new coat
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We made Disctop to bring a bit of fun in working with your brand mac. Pop in a CD or DVD in your drive and it will show up on your desktop. Useless but indispensable! Now this popular application runs great on Leopard and has some cool new artwork !! | Disctop webpage >>
- UPDATED: 11 Jan '08 | Category: Goodies
- Papers ensures third Apple Design Award for mekentosj
On tuesday June 12th, our youngest program Papers ensured our third Apple Design Award in the category 'Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution'. Alexander received the glowing cube) at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference 2007 in San Francisco. More on Papers >>- 13 Jun '07 | Category: Programs
- It's showtime! Introducing Papers 1.0
After three months of hard work we think we can finally say that Papers is ready for prime time use, today we announce the availability of Papers 1.0. The fact that Papers stands where it is now is thanks to all the users who were willing to give (our sometimes buggy) preview versions a try. And most of all to those who supported our work and who gave us loads of constructive feedback. Thank you very very much! We received literally hundreds of emails, the overwhelming majority positive, and we have noted all your feedback, issues, and feature requests very carefully. Now that we have reached a stable 1.0 version, prepare for what is to come. This baby is about to take off! Head over to the Papers web page and have fun with version 1.0! | Papers 1.0 >>- Updated: 23 Mar '07 | Category: Programs
- Interview in Nature
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We didn't talk much about the changes in terms of Science that happened after our graduation. By now Mek has moved to Cambridge in the UK, while Tosj is currently finishing his job at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, ready to move to a new postdoc position in Twente, The Netherlands. Soon we hope to update our science pages, describing in more detail what it is what we're doing right now. In the mean time some of this is already revealed in the interview that Alex had with the well-known journal Nature: Torn between two ladders. | Nature article >>
- 22 Feb '07 | Category: Science
- Thesis Defence Day!!
After six years of working in the Neefix laboratories we have almost reached our ultimate goal: our thesis defence. On Wednesday November 1st 2006 in Leiden, The Netherlands, first Tom and then Alex will defend their work from the past years in a 2x 45 minute session. After that the big party can begin. Update: The photos from the graduation are now online! | Our Graduation >>- 1 Nov '06 | Category: Events
- EnzymeX wins Apple Design Award 2006!
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Yesterday on August 8th, mekentosj won their second Apple Design Award this time for EnzymeX in the category 'Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution'. Alexander already got the glowing cube (see here for the CT scan of our first cube) at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco last night. For the rest of the prize we will have to wait some more weeks. In 2004 we won the ADA 'Best Mac OS X Student Product' for our sequence program 4Peaks. More information on the WWDC 2006 pages. | EnzymeX webpage | WWDC 2006 page >>
- 8 Aug '06 | Category: Programs
- Mek&Tosj Do The USA, WWDC 2006
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Well not completely true, only Mek will fly to US this year, while Tosj closely follows everything from our homebase Amsterdam. This year promises to be another very special Apple World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco with many great things to come and a busy schedule. We can't reveal all of it yet, but of course you can follow all our adventures on this website. Check it out... | WWDC'06 webpage >>
- 5-12 Aug '06 | Category: Events
- Help Science Move Forward...
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Together with Charles Parnot of Xgrid@stanford we created a dashboard widget that gives realtime status information about the world's largest Xgrid cluster. Today we announce the second incarnation of this fancy widget, everyone can now see what actually happens to their donated CPU cycles. | Xgrid widget webpage >>
- UPDATED: 3 May '06 | Category: Widgets
- To Cut, or not to Cut. Round 3.
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To cut or not to cut is no longer a question! At last there is a decent DNA sequence editing and analysis program that is worthy to run on MacOSX. We have completely rewritten EnzymeX and turned it into a fullblown DNA editor. Analyze your constructs the Mac way, never before it was so easy and so much fun! And of course, there is still all the information you ever want to know about over 600 restriction enzymes. Finally you can get rid of all those boring programs that look sooo yesterday. | EnzymeX webpage >>
- UPDATED: 2 May '06 | Category: Programs
- Garageband Friends
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Didn't you study too hard when it came to all those music theory lessons, but you do like just to play? Then Pianochords may help you out. It shows you all the chords you can think of. Just press a key on the keyboard to set the root of the chord and click the display to select the derived chord. It's as simple as that, the perfect companion to Garageband! | Pianochords webpage >>
- 28 March '06 | Category: Widgets
- On the Cover of Cell | Target scanner
In a collaboration with Mathijs Voorhoeve and Reuven Agami we have created TargetScanner, a MacOSX user interface for the UNIX program targetscan to identify microRNA targets. It was used in a study that identifies two important microRNAs as oncogenes in testicular germ cell cancer, the same type of cance of which Lance Armstrong was cured. This work has now been published in the leading journal Cell, and besides being co-author on the paper, we have also created the image that covers the edition of Cell in which the paper appears! | Cell Article | Targetscanner website >>- 24 Mar '06 | Category: Goodies
- More About Peaks, Four Peaks
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We have released an update of our award-winning sequence viewer 4Peaks. Version 1.7 is now fully Tiger compatible and goes universal, running natively on the new Macs. And that's not all, check out this new version of 4Peaks! | 4Peaks webpage >>
- UPDATED: 31 Jan '06 | Category: Programs
- Postdocs in Nature
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Our website has served as home for the postdocs that gather in the annual postdoc retreat, a collaboration between several dutch institutes with the aim to discuss current issues and future perspectives of postdocs. A report of this year's retreat can be found in the november 3rd issue of Nature, and includes a link to our website. | Nature article | Postdocs webpage >>
- 03 Nov '05 | Category: Postdocs
- Be widged!
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The hottest thing in software for the mac at this moment are definitely the dashboard widgets, and we wouldn't be mek&tosj if we wouldn't have created a few exciting ones. What to think of Solutions which you got to have if you work in a lab. And of course the long awaited Tigergotchi, your personal dashboard pet. Be sure to test them both, and there is more to come soon... | Widgets webpage >>
- 19 Aug '05 | Category: Widgets
- The Best Sequence Viewer Period
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Woohoo! 4Peaks has won the Apple Design Award for Best MacOSX student project! A new laptop and cinema display are on the way to the Netherlands, and a beautiful glowing cube is the proove of what we said already, 4Peaks is the best sequence viewer period. | 4Peaks webpage >>
- 29 Jun '04 | Category: Programs
Mek&Tosj were two young scientists who experienced the hard life of a PhD-student while working at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Fast forward 5 years later and mekentosj Inc. is now a thriving software company creating innovative and revolutionary programs for scientists on the Mac.