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 »
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, there is a (color) version Microsoft Paint online: jspaint.app
Just found this interesting set of “semester-biology ” (bio)informatics courses, from the original data carpentry site: Web rendered: https://datacarpentry.org/semester-biology/ GitHub: https://github.com/datacarpentry/semester-biology Derived works: Data Science for Biologists at Virginia Commonwealth University Data Science for Agriculture at Oklahoma State University Data Visualization for Plant Pathologists at the University of Florida Data Science for SAFS at the University of… Read More »
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 more complicated than I thought. The link to the original article is here: Computing residues per turn in an alpha helix… 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 »
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 web browser graphical interface. However, sometimes it may be useful, or even necessary, to access and download a file from a command line,… Read More »
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 internal to macOS. In the end it was decided to upgrade to 10.15 macOS Catalina (even though macOS… Read More »
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). The most recent was a bit long for me to diagnose, even though in retrospect… Read More »
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 discover that in fact PowerShell also exists for MacOS as well as Linux! So I looked a… Read More »
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: thomasleplus/csv Inspiration: stack overflow article: convert-xlsx-file-to-csv-using-batch Note: I wrote a different version of this on this post elsewhere: csvkit command-line spreadsheet can convert and… Read More »