University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Announcements

UW Free Computing Badger Compute and CHTC

Summary Two resources for free computing at UW-Madison offered by the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC): – BadgerCompute: badgercompute.wisc.edu/ for Jupyter-based interactive notebooks in R, Python, or Julia computer programming languages. – High Throughput Computing for large compute projects. Free account by filling-in a request account form. Free computing @ UW There was a …

Bioinformatics, R, Python, and more on Campus – Fall 2025

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python. (For more details see further below.) – UW Libraries – Steenbock Library Workshops – UW Data Science Hub / Software Carpentry – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) Steenbock Library Workshops See details on announcement page: Learn how to use Python and/or R programming languages for …

ChatMOL: PyMOL ChatGPT Plugin with Free chatlite version

Summary ChatMol is a ChatGPT plugin that offers a Free chatlite version that does not require an API key. ChatMol ChatMol is a PyMOL plugin based on  large language models, that provide a conversational interface (CUI) for molecular operation and computation. Current supported models include models from OpenAI (ChatGPT versions), Anthropic (Claude versions), DeepSeek, and …

Free NIH BioART 2D and NIH 3D

Summary The NIH offers 2D bioart (bioart.niaid.nih.gov) with a public domain license, and collections of 3D models (3d.nih.gov) Free 2D Bio Art The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has released a series of sketch art that may prove …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2024

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python. (For more details see further below.) – Biochem – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) – UW Libraries – SSteenbock Library Workshops – Computational Biology, Ecology, & Evolution (ComBEE) Study Groups R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The …

Environmental Health Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse

R and Tidyverse Tabular Data Analysis I have updated the Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse course that analyze environmental health data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) a survey research program conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children …

Webinar Data visualisation principles for enhancing effective scientific communication

“Data visualisation principles for enhancing effective scientific communication” Webinar Announcement: “Live Training” This webinar will provide an introduction to data visualisation principles. It includes a review of basic concepts and showcases tools to improve your understanding and use of data visualisation for improved accessibility to your research. Link: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/data-visualisation-principles-enhancing-effective-scientific-communication/ Quick Info:  Register Date: 26 June …

New Tutorial Section: Computational Modeling

Computational Modeling This is the general title of a new Tutorials pull-down menu that will be populated with new or updated tutorials. It can be found within the Tutorials menu list as Computational Modeling The very first tutorial is the result of an update to a Rosetta tutorial for “ligand docking” and adapt the Linux-based …

AlphaFold A practical guide Online Tutorial – EBI-EMBL

Summary This Free EBI/EMBL on-line course “AlphaFold, A practical guide” provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts behind AlphaFold2, how users can run protein predictions and integrate these predictions into their projects, and how AlphaFold2 has been used to enhance research. Course info Cost: Free Time to complete: 3 hours Resources required: Google Account (computation …

3D Protein Imager a PyMOL/Qutemol web alternative

Summary Molecule of the Month In the year 2000 David Goodsell started to provide stories on the The Protein Data Bank web site as the “molecule of the month” with his unique style that was later made available by the Qutemol software, unfortunately not updated since 2007 and therefore no longer working on many systems, …