Category: Announcements

NCBI-Workshops

Summary The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers events, including workshops hands-on, interactive training sessions. All events are listed on the NCBI Outreach Events page. Workshop recordings and materials remain available after the live sessions. NCBI Outreach Events The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a division of the National Library of Medicine …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Winter 2024

  Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: – 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 Python Club is currently closed …

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 this is easy, it is not the “best way” to use PyMOL if one wants to be able to reproduce …

Install Local Docker Desktop on macOS without Admin

NOT FOR USE AT UW SYSTEMS Important note (oct 07, 2024): changes in the licensing of Docker Desktop has changed. It is no longer recommended to UW personnel to download Docker Desktop to install Docker. Changes will take effect on November 14th, 2024. The before Nov 14th and after Nov 14th pricing would seem to …

Five ways to run AlphaFold

What is AlphaFold How to access AlphaFold There are multiple options to access AlphaFold. Here are four options using the limited databases. One options for the full databases. Using limited Databases: 1.) Casual users can use “Google Colab” with a web browser. Familiarity with Jupyter Notebook for running Python is helpful. The service is free …

Centralizing 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 languages beyond R, including Python. This event will occur monthly online on the last Tuesday of every month. Next occurrence …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2023

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The Python Club is currently closed but may be restarted in a new format. Minutes and scripts from the sessions are available online: beginners, intermediate_advanced, communication. The R-Club is continuously meeting …

AlphaFold2 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 Apple Silicon. The installation will require about 8Gb of space. Installing AlphaFold2 AlphaFold2 is a trained Machine Learning set of …

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 …

Free 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 Libraries. Register for access and create an account by following the steps below. Registering for The New York Times Digital: …