Barry Canton

Barry Canton Education

• 3rd Year Ph.D. candidate in the Biological Engineering Department, working with Drew Endy.
• MEngSc in Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin 2003
• BE in Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin 2002

Projects

• Engineering the Chassis/System Interface
• Receiver Specification - Working with Ania Labno

Communications

• PhD. Thesis Proposal
• BE Retreat Poster 2006
• Barry's Wiki

Miscellany

• E. coli restriction-modification system

• Registry of Standard Biological Models

• BE_Board

• Converting documents to mediawiki markup

• Non-functional DNA sequences

• Barry's Sandbox

• FACS protocols

Disabling academic research

I thought I'd take advantage of OWW's high page rank to advertize the fact that Wiley's Interscience is an extremely poor service. Despite the fact that MIT pays them large sums of money, I can't download papers beyond a few years ago (not that Wiley is unique in that). Furthermore, I can't even download a paper citation from their website in a format I can use. To add insult to injury, I had to try every permutation of the cryptic download options to discover this. Nor can I get the citation via pubmed. These people laughably describe themselves as publishers. A more productive way to publish your work may be to lock the single copy of your handwritten paper in a facility such as this.

Lab Data

• Primers
• Strains