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 »
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 PubMed Summary: A web site to create BibTex entries for bibliography in R Markdown. The most useful tool I found is from www.bioinformatics.org titled: TeXMed… Read More »
Web page: http://schubert.bio.uniroma1.it/pymod/GitHub: https://github.com/pymodproject/pymod Reference Giacomo Janson, Alessandro Paiardini, PyMod 3: a complete suite for structural bioinformatics in PyMOL, Bioinformatics, Volume 37, Issue 10, 15 May 2021, Pages 1471–1472, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa849 Abstract The PyMod project is designed to act as a fully integrated interface between the popular molecular graphics viewer PyMOL, and some of the most… Read More »
Now for a look back in time, when DNA was far from being discovered! https://manuscrits-france-angleterre.org Some links will go to the British Library in England: https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts Other links will be from the National French Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, BNF) with an English version: https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en Credit: Image on Bristish Library page https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts
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 Mac… Yesterday I saw this very useful that works on… Read More »
Source: Five ways to check shortened links for safety Before you visit a shortened URL, be sure the destination website is secure and appropriate. Shortening a URL has its utilities, especially if it needs to be typed on the keyboard. However, the short link obscures the final destination which might compromise safety. Here is a… Read More »
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 baggage. The next title is presented by Svante Pääbo that was the presentation that I saw at the… Read More »
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, most people are familiar with the concept of visual communication. However, while writing their articles and giving presentations, scientists frequently overlook aesthetic appeal because they believe it to be irrelevant or because they… Read More »
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 change of web server. I wrote a page about this elsewhere, but here is the summary below: Summary VirusWorld was… Read More »