The little prince looked around his asteroid. Everything seemed to be in its place; his flower was watered, the baobabs had been weeded, and he had cleaned out both the active volcanoes and the extinc...Read More
I recently acquired some movies in Video CD format. These are from before DVD readers were common, and so a full length film would be split across two CDROMs. I normally rip DVDs on my mac using Handb...Read More
One of the issues when using Raspberry Pi computers is that you have to hook up a monitor to find the IP address when plugging in to a new network, even if you really only need ssh access. To get arou...Read More
In my post about creating a DNA font, I mentioned the idea of doing a similar thing for proteins. There are 20 standard amino acids, each with a single character abbreviation. When combined with symbo...Read More
Our latest paper on the CE-CP method for finding protein circular permutations is in this month’s issue of Bioinformatics. Spencer E. Bliven, Philip E. Bourne, and Andreas Prlić. (2015) Detecti...Read More
I’m a fan of literate programming. When I’m writing a paper, I typically use LaTeX to draft the paper, Java to generate the data, and R to create figures and do basic analysis. With Sweave (or the...Read More
My first paper in collaboration with the Capitani team has been published online: Kumaran Baskaran, Jose M Duarte, Nikhil Biyani, Spencer Bliven and Guido Capitani. (2014) A PDB-wide, evolution-based ...Read More
Last week I attended the Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Biocrystallography at the Hohenburg Abbey on Mont Sainte-Odile, France. It’s a smaller conference, with a focus on short PhD and Postdoc p...Read More
I had a great time at the ISMB conference & related events in Boston last week. As always, it is an exciting event scientifically and socially. First there was the Open Bio Foundation’s Cod...Read More
I learned some interesting facts about fetal development recently. So interesting, they can only be properly delivered by Doctor McNinja (using the awesome Dinosaur Comic mashup template)...Read More