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It’s cool to see this on HN. It’s a common activity in metabolic modeling & metabolic engineering circles to build new pathway visualization tools (I spent a chunk of my PhD on one called “Escher”). I keep waiting for a tool to come along that’s good enough to be sticky and win this little market. But it might be more like IDEs, where there are some classics (pathway tools = emacs?), and an endless supply of new entrants.

I saw Terry Sejnowski give a talk last week in San Diego, and he made the exact same suggestion. He did not provide any evidence, but it's hard not to take his ideas seriously.

Bioengineering. I'll DM you on Twitter :)

[EDIT] Didn't work. Feel free to email me. Address is in my Bio.

It's fun to see San Diego at the top of HN.

I'm finishing a PhD at UC San Diego, and I've noticed a few things. First, there is a different dynamic for biotech talent. The biotech scene in SD is strong, and people seem drawn to that. Second, in contrast to LA at least, commuting in SD is not terribly difficult. And there is a light rail (trolley) beginning construction up to the UCSD campus from downtown. Third, this city is a draw for people (like me) who are looking for something less bustling than SF or LA, and I think it's important to try to keep young talent here by selling this idea. In biotech, we desperately need better software engineers.

SVG Crowbar might be useful for pulling out the SVG images (unfortunately it's for Chrome only):

http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/

Author here. This is a grad school project built with D3. You can also see it embedded in our model database http://bigg.ucsd.edu.

I was looking for a less-complicated alternative to nxhtml/mumamo and html5.el (which requires xhtml syntax). I've played with web-mode for a few minutes, and it seems great. Handles html, css, js nicely.

Only concern so far: javascript variables with underscores do not highlight correctly.

Yes, I use Everpix and I've been really happy with it. However, I like the photo upload tools that come with Dropbox, so now I collect, sort, and edit photos in Dropbox, then I transfer them to a static(ish) Everpix library that distributes them back to my iPhone/iPad/browser. Seems kind of circular, but it works really well. And I have 170,000 photos in the cloud for less than the cost of a Dropbox upgrade.