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 »
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 via “utterances” i.e. English-like phrases easier to write than code whether R, python, SQL, or other traditional tools. The web site is at datachat.ai The… Read More »
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 is meant to help scientists better communicate: 2022 Summer Zoom Course. Here is the content of the course announcement: Effective… Read More »
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 links: Summary list Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports Do yourself a… Read More »
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 titled “Unix for Neuroimagers” provides a wonderfully well done, easy to understand set of small… Read More »
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 Paul Kaesberg to learn cloning and sequencing, I was surprised when he said that the most important program to work with sequences was the (now defunct GCG) program… Read More »
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” (“Future’sEnd” – StarTrek:Voyager, Season 3, episodes 50 & 51) and so my last post being… Read More »
Last week PNAS has published something which would apparently contribute to future textbooks: Mobile small RNAs regulate genome-wide DNA methylation. You think that cutting / physical joining of different plants (grafting) will leave their genomes unaffected, right? Think twice! Authors show that mobile RNA travels between the two species and regulate methylation level of thousands… Read More »