University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: February 2023

Free New York Times through UW-Madison

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Registering for The New York Times through UW-Madison All necessary information can be found at: https://www.library.wisc.edu/help/research-tips-tricks/registering-for-the-new-york-times-through-uw-madison/ duplicated below: UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff have free access to The New York Times Digital (NYTImes.com) through the UW-Madison Libraries. Register for access and create an account by following the steps below. Registering for The New York Times Digital: …

Fast Sequence Composition

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Sequence Composition: fast shell method Motivation This post was inspired to “verify” a Python Script meant to compute the sequence composition of amino acids, as suggested by ChatGPT. (See ChatGPT_Protein_Composition.ipynb, or viewer ChatGPT_Protein_Composition.ipynb.) The code below is inspired by post number-of-occurences-of-letters-in-a-word. I found the process useful, and in addition applicable to nucleic acids as well. …

Python Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming

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Python and Object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of “objects“, which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and the code is in the form of procedures (often known as methods).(Wikipedia) Summary of OOP concepts I …

Intermediate Research Software Development in Python

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  Intermediate Research Software Development in Python Greetings everyone and Club members, (apologies i you receive duplicates) This may be more of interest to intermediate/advanced Python users: A Spring Break mini course offered by the local chapter of Software Carpentry at the UW-Madison Data Science Hub, March 13th – 17th , 9am-1pm: This course aims …