My latest paper with Douglas, Peter, Zaid, Andreas, Philippe, and Phil is out! Douglas Myers-Turnbull, Spencer E. Bliven, Peter W. Rose, Zaid K. Aziz, Philippe Youkharibache, Philip E. Bourne, Andreas...Read More
I presented journal club today on the paper: Pandya, C., Brown, S., Pieper, U., Šali, A., Dunaway-Mariano, D., Babbitt, P. C., et al. (2013). Consequences of domain insertion on sequence-structure di...Read More
I’m quite proud of my recently-released Castle Panic game pieces. Castle Panic is a great game, and it is fun to have some sturdy walls and towers to replace the flimsy cardboard ones it comes w...Read More
To further test out my TV oscilloscope, I hooked it up to the output from a small stereo. Changes in dynamics and instrumentation were very apparent in the songs I listened to. I find the blue start a...Read More
Someone left an old CRT TV on the laundry room swap table, so I decided to try and hack it. Following this instructable, I converted it into an extremely basic oscilloscope in about 30 minutes. Basica...Read More
[caption id="attachment_336" align="alignright" width="225" caption="My badge for ISMB, showing admission to 3DSIG and BOSC, as well as ISMB membership and Open Access pride."]Read More
Two weeks ago our Wikipedia article on Circular permutation in proteins was featured in on Wikipedia’s mainpage as a “Did you know…” article: We were quickly replaced by the Ri...Read More
Last summer, my boss Phil Bourne brought up an interesting problem for science. Wikipedia is the first place most people look for information, and yet most scientific research can only be found in sci...Read More
When we were kids, my siblings and I each had our own favorite properties when playing monopoly. My brother always went for the hotel on Boardwalk. My favorite was St. Charles Place. It didn’t c...Read More
I recently downloaded the Deja-Vu font family and discovered the open-source typography community. I thought it would be fun to try to make a font myself. Since much of my time is spent looking at bio...Read More