New publication on CE-Symm
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
How do insertions affect the structure of the Rossmann fold?
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
Castle Panic pieces
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
TV Oscilloscope Part 2
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
TV Oscilloscope
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
Topic Page update
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
The First PLoS Comp Bio Topic Page
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