Summary PyMOL command scripts are available natively and within Docker images. PyMOL Scripts PyMOL offers a very easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) to manipulate loaded molecule, and alter the appearance and coloring options. However, while this is easy, it is not the “best way” to use PyMOL if one wants to be able to reproduce …
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 the Internet Age (1994) it made sense to me base on the French language: “informatique” is a French word for …
What is PATH There are many technical definitions that can be found, but in simple terms, PATH is a list of directories.The listed directories will contain the software that run on the computer, including the command-line programs. PATH is a variable, and thus this list is flexible and new directories can be added. When the …
UW personnel has access to Box, a cloud drive to store documents. While the older “Box Sync” application kept a copy of every file and folder on the local computer, the newer “box drive” software keeps only chosen folders or files on the local machine, everything else stays in the “cloud.” The location of …
SUMMARY: Check calendar for Free “R” and “Python” workshops (Steenbock Library.) “Introduction to R with RStudio,” “Data Wrangling in R” (SSCC – Social Science Computing Cooperative.) “Automating Tasks with the Unix Shell,” “Data Management with SQL,” “Introduction to Docker” (Software Carpentry through UW-Madison Data Science (fees apply).)
…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…