University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: December 2019

Dockerization – details needed

Reproducible research Docker is a great tool to provide methods for reproducible research that should allow other researchers to reproduce any advanced calculations that you, as a researcher have done, most likely in association with publishing a paper. However, there are many caveats along the way, the first one being explanations on how to launch …

Finding alternate software

A couple years ago I wrote a short note on another blog (DNA.today – link below) about a web site that can be quite useful: it provides the name of alternate software. The site is: alternativeto.net For example, if you cannot afford Adobe PhotoShop you would be glad to find an alternative in “Gimp” (GNU Image Manipulation Program.)  The …

Survival command line

The built-in Terminal in MacOS and Linux and in Windows with added software provides access to the core of the computer. They are simply a software version (an emulation) of what used to be a hardware terminal (as the one shown above) user to connect to a computer when these were the size of multiple washing …