Archive for May, 2016

The economy of Aberdeen has been heavily reliant on the North Sea oil and gas industry since the 1970s. Thanks to the oil wealth, for decades Aberdeen had seen rapid economic and population growth and a swell of prosperity. At the end of 2014, however, all was changed. Crude oil price plummeted from more than […]

The environment, as several news stories tell, faces a number of challenges from human activity. Besides climate change, there is an alarming rate of extinction of species, and concern about soil erosion, availability of fresh water, declines in populations of pollinators and songbirds, and loss of habitat for wildlife. It has been suggested that debt-driven […]

Flapjack has just been updated to version 1.18.06.29. CHG: The truncate long line names and long trait values dialogs now use number spinners rather than slider controls. CHG: Implemented a better way of parsing trait data to ensure we get a better idea of whether the data for a given column is numerical or categorical. […]

Flapjack has just been updated to version 1.18.06.13. NEW: Flapjack is now BrAPI (https://www.brapi.org) enabled. NEW: Added a new menu option to import via BrAPI to the File menu. NEW: Added a new analysis module to perform line-based pedigree verification. NEW: Added an option to use a SOCKS proxy rather than a normal HTTP proxy. […]

By Jiaqi Ge, Gary Polhill and Tony Craig Imagine you could choose to work at any of the workplaces in Aberdeen City and Shire, anywhere. How would that change your life? Would it make your life easier, now you don’t need to be stuck in the traffic for so long?  Would you still come to […]