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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months 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, […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months 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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months 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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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 1 year, 12 months ago
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 programs, […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 2 years ago
Just found this interesting set of “semester-biology ” (bio)informatics courses, from the original data carpentry site:
Web […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 2 years ago
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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 2 years, 9 months ago
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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
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 […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 3 years, 2 months ago
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 […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 3 years, 4 months ago
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). […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 3 years, 5 months ago
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 […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 3 years, 5 months ago
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: […] - Load More