Every academic should have an ORCID record

ORCID: Open Research and Contributor ID I have a rather unique name and finding my publications in Pubmed is usually not very difficult, even though it is not 100% fail proof. An O.R.C.ID is a unique identifier that some journals now require.In fact just last week I had to provide my ORCID to a journal …

Course for Scientists for Effective and Engaging Scientific Communication Practices

Scientists need to communicate The art of communication is often overlooked in a Scientist career, but it is becoming increasingly important that Scientists learn to communicate at different levels. Telling a story is a powerful way to explain and interest people and there are proven techniques that can help. H. Adam Steinberg is a former …

1to3 and 3to1 peptide sequence conversion

Summary 1. How to easily convert a string of character to appear one character per line> Either of: echo "abcdefg" | fold -w1 echo "abcdefg" | grep -o . 2. How to convert amino acid sequence from one-letter to three-letter or vice versa? Easiest is on a listed web site. 3. How to write the …

Why every PhD should be on LinkedIn

UWMadison affiliations The social media landscape is vast and it is easy to miss important connections. For example, I just found out that UW–Madison is a member of “Beyond the Professoriate” (requires NetID login.) with 31 other Universities and Schools (*). The platform offers: “AURORA is a professional development training platform for graduate students and PhDs …

Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Wisconsin

Café des sciences webinar This first collaborative Café des sciences webinar is organized by the Office for Science and Technology of the Consulate General of France in Chicago in collaboration with UW-Madison, the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene, and the Wisconsin Dept of Health Services. Title: “Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Wisconsin“ Time: Tuesday March …

Google Docs Tutorials

Google Docs is Free Google Docs is a free, web-based document creator system to create and collaborate on online documents in real-time and from any device. The type of documents that can be created can be text, notes, spreadsheet, drawing, slides, and web pages, each with a separate editor. The Wikipedia entry for Google Docs …

Guide to Submitting HTCondor jobs

High Throughput Computing (HTC) First a note: HTC is meant for a large number of small to medium size jobs. HTC is different than HPC (High Performance Computing) that would run large size jobs that require a high memory (RAM) footprint, and/or extremely large data files. Biochemistry Department personnel can obtain access to the in-door …

Reformat every other line with paste

  Sometimes a very simple command can accomplish amazing tasks. Recently I had a list with alternating entries on every other line with about 200 lines, and lots of uneven text. But  I wanted to have 2 columns instead. A quick online search let me find a new way of using a familiar command called …

AlphaFold – How to interpret structures

3D Protein structure prediction (4) This YouTube video from the European Bioinformatics Institute – EMBL-EBI webinar was recorded on 08 September 2021 This webinar will introduce AlphaFold system for prediction and interpretation of protein structures. This webinar is designed for experimental biologists who wish to understand the strengths and limitations of AlphaFold and use the …

AlphaFold – run from ChimeraX

The new ChimeraX menu "Tools > Structure Prediction > AlphaFold" provides a simple interface to run AlphaFold2 Colab that does not require the user to know how to use a Jupyter Notebook.