Category: Books

More Covid-19 Coloring Books

My little Covid-19 coloring book last month was very well received and was even reported in the CALS eNewsletter on April 17. Other people had similarly been inspired so here is a list of “More Covid-19 Coloring Books” mostly meant for younger readers (but also adults with a kid’s heart.) Some of them have a bigger …

A great Unix tutorial suitable for beginners

...provides a wonderfully well done, easy to understand set of small tutorials, with exercises, each with an accompanying video that should make it easier for beginners that want to learn Unix command line / bash.... To make is faster to navigate the lessons and videos I have combined both into a simple table...

FREE Comics – World of Viruses

World of Viruses “World of Viruses comics” from the University of Nebraska are available free on-line as PDF or for reading online. A nice way to educate oneself and younger ones while seemingly having fun! Just follow this link: worldofviruses.unl.edu/comics-apps Description of the series on Amazon: World of Viruses is a graphic novel that contains the …

Covid-19 Coloring Book and PyMOL scripts book

Update 1: reported in the CALS eNewsletter on April 17 [Archived May 2, 2020] Update 2: I compiled a table with more Covid-19 coloring books from other inspired sources. Friday, April 10, 2020 (“Good Friday”) I have created a booklet titled “SARS-CoV-2 – COVID-19 | A Coloring Book” that parents who are spending a lot …

How To Think Like a Computer Scientist and other FREE “Think books”

I regularly roam the Internet in search of solutions to simple questions and often find the answers in sites such as stackoverflow.com, biostars.org or similar forums. Once in a while I find interesting, free materials, such as the FREE “Think” book series by Allen B. Downey on Green Tea Press. The premise of this series …

PyMOL in book Exploring Protein Structure – Principles and Practice

This textbook introduces the basics of protein structure and logically explains how to use online software to explore the information in protein structure databases.