w3schools: Learn to Code On the w3schools site I was surprised to find a lot more than informational tutorial for Web coding such as CSS or PHP. The site offers a large number of well …
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Learn X in Y minutes
Learn X in Y minutes In the past we had “flash cards” to memorize and review materials. This site Learn X in Y minutes has one-page reminders that can be used to re-learn material or …
1to3 and 3to1 peptide sequence conversion
Summary 1. How to easily convert a string of character to appear one character per line> Either of: echo “abcdefg” | fold -w1 echo “abcdefg” | grep -o . 2. How to convert amino acid …
Google Docs Tutorials
Google Docs is a free, web-based document creator system to create and collaborate on online documents in real-time and from any device. The type of documents that can be created can be text, notes, spreadsheet, …
Guide to Submitting HTCondor jobs
High Throughput Computing (HTC) First a note: HTC is meant for a large number of small to medium size jobs. HTC is different than HPC (High Performance Computing) that would run large size jobs that …
Reformat every other line with paste
Sometimes a very simple command can accomplish amazing tasks. Recently I had a list with alternating entries on every other line with about 200 lines, and lots of uneven text. But I wanted to …
AlphaFold – How to interpret structures
3D Protein structure prediction (4) This YouTube video from the European Bioinformatics Institute – EMBL-EBI webinar was recorded on 08 September 2021 This webinar will introduce AlphaFold system for prediction and interpretation of protein structures. …
AlphaFold – run from ChimeraX
The new ChimeraX menu “Tools > Structure Prediction > AlphaFold” provides a simple interface to run AlphaFold2 Colab that does not require the user to know how to use a Jupyter Notebook.
AlphaFold code
DeepMind and Google have created a method to access the code on GitHub. All the details to install AlphaFold locally are on the “readme” page, visible on the lower portion of the GitHub page ColabFold (See my Blog: Google colab is a free cloud notebook environment).
AlphaFold background
Predicting protein three-dimensional (3D) structures given a linear sequence of amino acids. The AlphaFold2 breakthrough.