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A new spin-off company from the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes a new interface for data analysis based on Guided English Language© (GEL) to command Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods […]

The power of Story telling

Scientists often are so deep into their work that they forget to announce the importance of their discovery or their current research to the World!

This new (Zoom) online course […]

In 1984 the Macintosh arrived with the amazing MacWrite and MacPaint programs. But at that time it was all in black and white.

Later, Windows also had a Paint program.

If you feel nostalgic about these […]

Just found this interesting set of  “semester-biology ” (bio)informatics courses, from the original data carpentry site:

Web […]

Last month I wrote a blog on my Biochemistry Blog about computing the number of residues within an alpha helix. This was in relation to a project concerning predicting a “coiled-coil” structure. It was […]

I wrote a series on my Biochem Blog with this title: “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown”

At the moment there are 4 episodes, but more might be coming. Rather than retype things here I’ll just post the […]

Cross-posting from post:  Download Google Drive Files using wget

The problem: transfer file between clouds
Files on Google drive can be shared between users, but the default access to the file is via we we […]

The saying goes “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” – Oh Yeah. But sometimes it is inevitable…
Problem
Last month, under macOS Mojave (10.14) suddenly VMWare did not want to start, because of a security issue […]

I just wrote an entry on my Biochem blog which I think would fit on this site:
Default preferences
I enjoy using R and RStudio, but I am always weary of upgrading R because that usually leads to some issue(s). […]

Even though PowerShell has been around for apparently a long time (cerca 2002) it only came onto my “radar” recently as the “app” that can be used as a Text-Terminal to ssh somewhere. But I was then surprised to […]

Summary

csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. (csvkit can convert XLSX files to CSV.)
A good docker container for csvkit: […]

More than once I have written my own tutorials for learning how to use the command line within the bash shell in the context of a Unix or Unix-like computer. Recently I found a very well done tutorial that, while […]

The iris dataset is perhaps one of the most famous datasets used to learn and teach statistics and now machine learning. Being curious about this dataset lead me last time to the TableConvert.com  web site that I […]

This is a repost of my post on the Biochemistry department: tableconvert-com-free-tabular-data-formats-converter
Tabular formats
When I first came to Madison in 1986 as a postdoc with Biochemistry professor […]

Today I found a new tool: bioawk that was written by Heng Li who also wrote samtools and bwa.

I first discovered it ont this blog: bioawk-basics (Bioinformatics Workbooks)

There is also a short tutorial on G […]

Moving atoms
For some reason a paper copy of “Chemical and Engineering News” (November 11, 2019 – Vol 97 Issue 44) ended up in my hands, and I almost missed this fun section named: “30 years of moving atoms: How […]

I use grep very often, and I made-up and acronym that made sense to me: Get REgular ExPression

But I discovered this YouTube video that gives an accurate historical recounting of its birth and where its name […]

Even though I have been using computers all my life there are still many aspects of computing that are mysterious to me, and I am sure many others…

One of my favorite quotes is “A leads to B leads to C” […]

Binder 2.0
As just an “end-user” of software for data analysis it is sometimes difficult to just catch up with what’s available, and I end-up discovering new things simply browsing the web looking for something […]

Recently I was testing a Docker image to run a container for Next Gen sequencing, a way to test an existing “pipeline” on the first published study of the effect of the Zika virus. […]