NCBI Magic-BLAST Workshop The intermediate level workshop Analyzing & Visualizing NextGen Reads with Magic-BLAST – [Archived] is designed for biologists who are comfortable working with the command-line (bash) and who are interested in performing some early …
sequence analysis
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 …
How BLAST Works and Using Web BLAST Effectively
NCBI BLAST Workshop The NCBI workshop is designed for beginning BLAST users or people wanting a refresher on how blast works and some tips on how to run effective BLAST searches. – Materials: 2022-10_Basic-Web-BLAST – …
Computing residues per turn in an alpha helix
Single mutation to be modeled I recently had an interesting challenge, that of creating a molecular model of a protein expressed from a gene with a newly identified single amino acid mutation. I (wrongly) assumed …
bioinformatics tutorials
June 26, 2020. I have added a new entry under the “Tutorials” menu for “bioinformatics” to provide a place for tutorials that are more than just about one subject. “bioinformatics is the science of …