Summary sandbox.bio provides interactive tutorials for exploring bioinformatics command-line tools within a web browser. Bioinformatics When people ask “what is bioinformatics” I have to pause. When I named a computer “bioinformatics” at the dawn of …
sequence analysis
Five ways to run AlphaFold
What is AlphaFold AlphaFold can accurately predict 3D models of protein structures by providing an amino acid sequence. (Ref: Deep Mind.) The AlphaFold network directly predicts the 3D coordinates of all heavy atoms for a …
3D Molecular Structures Analysis with NCBI iCn3D
NCBI tutorial: iCn3D hands-on workshop “I see in 3D” (iCn3D) Structure Viewer is not only a web-based 3D viewer, but also a structure analysis tool interactively or in the batch mode […] – (Longer description.) …
Magic-BLAST analysis of NextGen Reads
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 …
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 …