The Protein Folding Problem
First, if you’ve never had the opportunity to visit xkcd, I highly suggest you do it. It’s a wonderful website. My personal favorite is the What If? feature....
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Simple Sequence Similarity
I’ve mostly refrained from posting any of the code that I’ve been writing in the past months because the code seems scraped together in a “just get it done” ...
Syntax Highlighting
I had to follow a few different explanations on how to employ syntax highlighting on Blogger before I found a set of instructions that worked. In case anyone...
Be Right Back
I’m usually not a huge fan of television, but recently it has been convenient to watch an episode of something or other with my wife after dinner. I reason t...
Some Ethical Issues of Genomic Data
Yesterday I spent several hours attending an ethics class as well as a ethics/policy seminary. Both were great, and while I haven’t had a large amount of tim...
My First Rotation
I’m giving my first poster talk of my graduate school career tomorrow, along with approximately half of my cohort (the other half had their posters toda...
What is Genomics?
I just began my second of three rotations this week, so it’s been a busy transition time. But I thought I would share this short genomics video. It’s really ...
The Desktop
With my Birthday, Black Friday, and Christmas all right around the corner, I haven’t been able to keep myself from thinking about the possibility of purchasi...
What Did You Accomplish This Week?
A few weeks ago I was jokingly asked by a friend (who has never set foot in a lab) if I had made any great discoveries that week. I had just finished confirm...
Topic Results
For anyone who’s curious how the survey is going, below is the current average with error bars showing one standard deviation. I didn’t bother with any t...