Workshops and Special Announcements
Faster image creation in PyMOL: Shortcuts and Docker
Summary PyMOL command scripts are available natively and within Docker images. PyMOL Scripts PyMOL offers a very easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) to manipulate loaded molecule, and alter the appearance and coloring options. However, while …
November 28, 2023Install Local Docker Desktop on macOS without Admin
Summary Instructions to install Docker on macOS for which user does not have Admin privileges. These instructions are meant for iMacs in Biochem 201 but should work on any Mac. Procedure Download Docker Desktop from …
November 17, 2023Five ways to run AlphaFold
What is AlphaFold AlphaFold can accurately predict 3D models of protein structures by providing an amino acid sequence. (Ref: Deep Mind.) The AlphaFold network directly predicts the 3D coordinates of all heavy atoms for a …
August 24, 2023Centralizing R & Python Data Projects: Posit Cloud Essentials Event
Cloud event Users of RStudio may be interested in this monthly event presented by “Posit” which is the new name of the company that produces RStudio, as the software can be used with many more …
August 23, 2023R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2023
Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: Biochem SSCC UW Libraries R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The Python Club is currently closed but …
August 23, 2023AlphaFold2 on Macintosh M1
Summary This post is a summary of installation of AlphaFold2 onto a Macintosh with an M1 style (arm64) computer chip (i.e. not an Intel/AMD Chip.) This post started with the blog post Installing Alphafold2 on …
April 27, 20233D 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.) …
March 14, 2023Free New York Times through UW-Madison
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 …
February 24, 2023Intermediate Research Software Development in Python
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 …
February 5, 2023Python for the Life Sciences – A Gentle Introduction
Summary This book will be used to learn Python in workshop settings. For Biologists, Life Scientists There are many books, even free books, with the objective to teach Python or other programming languages. I previously …
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