Month: March 2023

Jupytext 2-way reformat of Jupyter notebooks

Jupytext can save and reformat Jupyter notebooks I was trying to test a Jupyter notebook from NCBI titled “Getting Started with NCBI Data in Python” (March 2, 2022) that is now on a “Binder” web page. However, the system kept stalling, but I was given access to the “raw” script. To my surprise the format …

PyCharm IDE installation without Admin

PyCharm IDE Installation Having “Admin privileges” on an educational or business computer is becoming a rarity, as security reasons are increasingly important. However, there are often way to install a software for “just one user” that can be useful. PyCharm is a popular Python Integrated development environment (IDE),  a software application that helps manage writing computer code …

Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology – 2022 proceedings

Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology – in Madison The International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB) Conference held the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) in Madison in July 2022. Conference details are still available online, but more importantly a special “Bioinformatics” journal issue has been compiled from the proceedings of this conference: Most articles link to …

3D Molecular Structures Analysis with NCBI iCn3D

NCBI tutorial: iCn3D hands-on workshop “I see in 3D” (iCn3D) Structure Viewer is not only a web-based 3D viewer, but also a structure analysis tool interactively or in the batch mode […] – (Longer description.) This workshop is designed for life scientists with some (intermediate) expertise in structural biology. The topics of structure prediction, molecular …

PyMOL Stereo viewing

  PyMOL Stereo viewing PyMOL can display stereo in many ways. Unless special equipment is available, the method is to split the PyMOL 3D view area in two with the command stereo on (and stereo offto turn it off.) The alternative is to use the menu cascade: Display > Stereo. However, there are 2 ways …