DNA font

Posted on February 10, 2012December 7, 2016 by spencer

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

Arduino IDE keywords

Posted on January 18, 2012 by spencer

The other day I made my first library (a 7-segment display controller) for my new Arduino Uno, following two nice tutorials. They both mention that it’s a good idea to make a keywords.txt file f... Read More

EVfold

Posted on January 10, 2012 by spencer

For our weekly journal club I talked about a new method for de novo protein folding called EVfold. [Slides] Details can be read in the paper (plus 15 page supporting text) Marks, D. S., Colwell, L. J.... Read More

PDB40

Posted on November 22, 2011 by spencer

I had a great time over Halloween at PDB40 at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, celebrating 40 years of protein structure. I especially like the talks from older structural biologist about the history o... Read More

Protein of the Day: GluCl

Posted on November 22, 2011 by spencer

I mostly post pretty proteins to twitter, but this one deserves more than one image. It’s a membrane pore protein called glutamate-gated chloride channel (GluCl). One of my students pointed it o... Read More

ISMB

Posted on July 22, 2011 by spencer

I had a great time attending 3DSIG and ISMB/ECCB in Vienna. The quality of the talks was very high and it was fun to meet so many other computational biologists. It is nice to finally put faces and pe... Read More

Passed Quals!

Posted on July 22, 2011 by spencer

On June 7th I officially passed my qualifying exam. It consisted of a written report and an oral presentation. Many thanks to my committee: Ruben Abagyan, Pat Jennings, and Andy MacCammon.... Read More

All things lead to Philosophy

Posted on May 27, 2011 by spencer

The following meme has been kicking around reddit and other sites recently: Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and th... Read More

Java Interpreters

Posted on April 29, 2011 by spencer

I’m a big fan of the iPython interpreter. I like having an interpreter running while I develop for prototyping and debugging. Since I currently develop in java primarily, I thought I’d tak... Read More

My location over the past year

Posted on April 22, 2011 by spencer

Recently there has been much ado over the discovery that the iPhone keeps a log of everywhere you’ve been. I choose to push my paranoia aside and focus on the benefits of this: a cool app that l... Read More

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