As an Alumni of EMBL at Grenoble, France I like to read information about this international community. They just announced that their magazine EMBL Etc. is now fully, and only digital available online. EMBLetc Read the latest Issues of our magazine – EMBLetc. Issue 99, Winter 2022 Uncovering a microbe’s inner life From coast to… Read More »
The Bioinformatics Core at the UC Davis Genome Center has all the Documentation for the workshops and courses, past and current, available on the bioinformatics training program GitHub page. The Genome Center Event Registration offers the same material in a different listing order based on the date. Most of the material is available as Github… Read More »
Inspired by article “How to set up and run Python Data Science Development Environment with Jupyter on Docker” [Archived] Data Scientists coders must work with a variety of Data Science development tools, including the Anaconda (or Miniconda) Python distribution platform, the Python programming language, the R programming language, Matplotlib library, Pandas Library, the Jupyter application, and many others. The article describes how to… Read More »
Fresh from Nature Methods this week is an article from a consortium of UW-Madison researchers that developed a Python library for image analysis. Their new Python library is linking the Java-based methods of the ImageJ2 software to Python for powerful command-line processing. References Rueden, CT, Hiner, MC, Evans, EL, Pinkert, MA, Lucas, AM, Carpenter, AE,… Read More »
This video from Oxford Nanopore channel is showing how they use Nanopore on site in the desert, stating that “the future is already here” at time 3min40sec within the video. In the Gobi Desert, a team established a mobile lab for genome sequencing.Their objective was to investigate the microbiome of tiny mammals residing in this… Read More »
This YouTube video from the BBC Archive channel gives a glimpse of computing in 1995 when the DIGITAL VT100 terminal was king! Description based on info on YouTube: At the Boston software company Infocom, Fred Harris gets behind the scenes. The developer has had considerable success with its series of text-based adventure games, including The… Read More »
The complete title from this article is “File not found A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans” (Archived version.) Here is a short summary: It’s the idea that a modern computer doesn’t just save a file in an infinite expanse; it saves it in the “Downloads” folder,… Read More »