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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, EMBL Communications 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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 […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Bioinformatics Training Materials 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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 […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Python Data Science with Jupyter on Docker 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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, […]
Yury Bukhman posted an update in the group BioComP 3 weeks ago

Our Nile rat genome paper has been published: see https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-022-01427-8

See also this news story: https://morgridge.org/story/genome-sequencing-supports-nile-rat-animal-model-for-diabetes-research/
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, PyImageJ: integrating ImageJ and Python 3 weeks ago

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 […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Next Gen sequencing in the Gobi desert 3 weeks ago

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 […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, 1985 computing in action 3 weeks ago

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 […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, File not found. The vanishing concept of File 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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.)

Vanishing structure (img from original […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown. BibTex for PubMed 1 month ago

Credit: Alison506 on pixabay

In the series Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown I added a very useful web site for bibliography in R/Rstudio. The original post is here: Episode 5. BibTeX interface for […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, PyMOD 3: Structural Bioinformatics within PyMOL 1 month ago

Web page: http://schubert.bio.uniroma1.it/pymod/GitHub: https://github.com/pymodproject/pymod

PyMOL project from the Schubert Lab

Reference

Giacomo Janson, Alessandro Paiardini, PyMod 3: a complete suite […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Explore 800 medieval manuscriptsof France and England 1 month, 1 week ago

Now for a look back in time, when DNA was far from being discovered!

Some links will go to the British Library in England:

Other links will be from the National French Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, QR code decoding 1 month, 2 weeks ago

QR codes are useful in some way if the user has a smart phone. But what if there is no smart phone around? I have been frustrated on occasion because there was a QR code but I wanted to to open the link on my […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Check shortened links for safety 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Source: Five ways to check shortened links for safety

Before you visit a shortened URL, be sure the destination website is secure and appropriate.

Image Credit: anujohann / Pixabay

Shortening a URL has […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Big Book of R 1 month, 3 weeks ago

http://www.bigbookofr.com by Oscar Baruffa

This online book is a compendium list of ~300 books using R for data analysis.

Fro example, one useful example contained within is Computational Genomics with R by […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, When We Met Other Human Species 1 month, 3 weeks ago

In the light of the new Nobel Prize nomination of Svante Pääbo it is nice to watch these youtube titles.

The first one is from PBS, and offers a nice summary without too much scientific jargon or b […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Chateaubriand Fellowship for PhD students 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chateaubriand Fellowship

The Chateaubriand Fellowship allows PhD students registered in an American university the opportunity to spend 4–9 months in France. The fellowship aims to initiate or reinforce c […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Statistics to Make You Think – (Comedy) 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Engineer/Comedian Don McMillan has a YouTube Channel with a lot of fun videos, many of them making fun of how data, science, statistics, physics, etc. is misused by people or bad journalism.

Here is one […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Making Science More Engaging 1 month, 4 weeks ago

A webinar from “The Scientist”

Announcement and recording of event:

A-Picture-is-Worth-a-Thousand-Words-Making-Science-More-Engaging

About this webinar: Given that humans are by nature visual animals, […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, Where is VirusWorld? 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Virusworld was started as an anonymous FTP site in 1993 to distribute virus images I created from X-ray crystallography data, primarily for teaching. After 29 years the site has been retired, in part due to […]
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post, DataChat: Guided English Language© Ai and ML data analysis 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 […]
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