University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Announcements

Intermediate 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 local chapter of Software Carpentry at the UW-Madison Data Science Hub, March 13th – 17th , 9am-1pm: This course aims …

Python 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 wrote a list of free books on the post Free Data Science Books. This book “Python for the Life Sciences …

Free on-line Python, R, Data Science Programming Courses

Free courses This new page lists professional courses available to UW-Madison personnel at LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com) and just requires a NetID. The page has been added on the new “Software Resources” top menu for an easy find, and is also listed below: The page is: Free programming courses The page also lists courses that …

PyMOL resources, books and references

NOTE: this post becoming too long, its content is now moved and updated on the page: PyMOL Resources PyMOL resources Summary This post provides resources on PyMOL What is PyMOL and how to get it The University of Wisconsin participates in the licensing of PyMOL Campus wide. License and software are available on the Campus …

Chateaubriand STEM Fellowship

Note: Updated November 30, 2022 Chateaubriand Fellowship The Chateaubriand Fellowship allows PhD students registered in an American university the opportunity to spend 4–9 months in France. The fellowship aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations or join projects between French and American research teams. US citizenship is not required (see eligibility (slow archived link) and guidelines.) …

New classroom, computers, workshops

New classroom, computers, workshops New Apple Macintosh M1 computers are ready for hosting new workshops in person again. Apple M1 Macintosh The classroom is now equipped with Macintosh mac-mini computers with the new M1 chip. These are attached to Dell 4K display monitors providing a crisp image and easy connections. New workshops While there are many …

R and Python workshops – Fall 2022

Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Below are workshop dates for SSCC, Madison chapter of Software Carpentry, and Steenbock Library series. Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) The table below shows only the R and Python courses. See complete listing at https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/  Title Date Time Instructor Introduction to Python …

Where is VirusWorld?

  Virusworld. was hosted since its inception at the Institute for Molecular Virology in 1993/1994 at the dawn of the World Wide Web and was retired on the first week of July 2022. I was the main author and curator of the web site which was started to disseminate virus depictions based on X-ray crystallography …

Software Carpentry

The Carpentries The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a Platinum Member Organization of the THE CARPENTRIES that comprise 3 communities: the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry. There is a lot of enthusiasm around the Caprentries at UW Madison as reported by this carpentry blog by UW-Madison Lauren Michael, now Lead Research Computational Facilitator at …

Every academic should have an ORCID record

ORCID: Open Research and Contributor ID I have a rather unique name and finding my publications in Pubmed is usually not very difficult, even though it is not 100% fail proof. An O.R.C.ID is a unique identifier that some journals now require.In fact just last week I had to provide my ORCID to a journal …