University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Programming

Survival command line

The built-in Terminal in MacOS and Linux and in Windows with added software provides access to the core of the computer. They are simply a software version (an emulation) of what used to be a hardware terminal (as the one shown above) user to connect to a computer when these were the size of multiple washing …

How to spot a misleading graph?

As biochemists and biologists, like all scientists we convey results in the form of graphs. We also read papers that present results. More generally graphs are used in many aspects of every day news… The following YouTube video from Ted-Ed shows stunning examples on how our perception can be manipulated when graphs are created with obvious …

Bioinformatics – which computer language should I learn first?

In the past years I have focused on what seemed to be the most useful bioinformatics tools for biologists that need to analyze data with software that does not have a graphical interface. The final result is that I created tutorials for bash, R and python. It seems that others agree, and I think this youtube …

Programming for Biology – Cold Spring Harbor

Programming for Biology 2019 The famous Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  offers many courses, the course Programming for Biology 2019 was held in October 2019 and this specific course generously offers the course materials online on this site: programmingforbiology.org The course materials covers basics and advanced methods using Unix & Python and provides tutorial materials that include …