Tag Archives: PDB

Compiling arm64 version of amd64 code in 32 bit in a container – with Copilot help

Copilot is a great resource to help create a Dockerfile necessary to compile a (Docker) Container image. Containers are simple packages that contain at least the minimal information to run a software within a different OS and/or architecture. Container software include Docker which helped popularize the container methods, but others exist such as apptainer and… Read More »

Where is VirusWorld?

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 »

Computing residues per turn in an alpha helix

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 »