La petite planète
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
Ripping Video CDs
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
Raspberry Pi IP notifications using Telegram
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
Protein words
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
Using BioJava from R
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
A PDB-wide, evolution-based assessment of protein–protein interfaces
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
Regiomeeting at Mont Sainte-Odile
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