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 …
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 …
Summary A tool to create a BibTeX entry for online articles or blogs. Generate BibTeX from URL This is a follow-up on 6 “Episode”” in previous posts titled “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown…” In a previous article (Sgro (2022)) I presented how to add bibliographical information within an Rmarkdown document (Allaire et al. (2023)) …
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology – in Madison The International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB) Conference held the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) in Madison in July 2022. Conference details are still available online, but more importantly a special “Bioinformatics” journal issue has been compiled from the proceedings of this conference: Most articles link to …
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 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 …
Summary A web site to create BibTex entries for bibliography in R Markdown. R and Markdown This is a follow-up on 4 “Episodes” in previous posts titled “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown…” To add bibliographical information it is necessary to write the information of a paper in the BibTex format. BibTeX-files may contain four …
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 …
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 …
Becoming a Data Scientist If you are interested to become a data scientist, the following free resources and books would be very helpful. Free books using R These and other books aan be accessed for free on bookdown.org (Note: bookdown is the software used to edit them.) Free books on using Python Free books on …