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Full-length developmental transcriptome of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii

We generated a transcriptome from developmental stages of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii using the Iso-Seq method from PacBio, which outputs full-length transcripts and resolved isoforms. The dataset is now available on Zenodo: Vellutini, B. C., Handberg-Thorsager, M. & Tomancak, P. (2024). Platynereis dumerilii full-length transcriptome of developmental stages. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14250773 The transcriptome was used for the […]

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EvoDevo Papers now at biologists.social

The botsin.space community, a popular Mastodon server for automated accounts (bots), will be retiring soon. They have been kindly hosting EvoDevo Papers for the past couple of years. To avoid any downtime, I recently migrated the account to a new server, the biologists.social community managed by The Company of Biologists. I think it’s a great match, […]

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Aaron Swartz’s definition of science

“Science is merely a process of asking questions and searching answers, along with the combined knowledge accumulated from this search.” “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz” by Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig I like how casual this definition is. Science is often portrayed as something only professional scientists can do, […]