Five unique traits of effective computational biologist
Bioinformatics research is driven by large set of software, scri...s more than writing code that works. The biological programmers...nce, and knowledge to produce working code. There are some techn...think their job is to produce working codes, not technical resea...rofession without loving your work. T...3942 days ago
Five points for bioinformatics software/tools
In the bioinformatics sector we mostly spend time on computational analy...from your computational and analysis work, most of the reviewer also pr...cause they were the product of an overworked doc/postdoc!) so you are re...raged approach in biological analysis work, b...3699 days ago
Well designed regular expression cheat sheet
In our computational biology work, we mostly play with DNA or AA string. For string based programming work this regular expression cheat sheet is really helpful. Keep it handy.3941 days ago
List of popular bioinformatics software/tools
In current genome era, our day to day work is to handle the huge geneome sequences, expression data, several other datasets. This link provide a comprehensive list of commonly used sofware/tools.3937 days ago
India's own first drug - from Biocon.
Psoriasis is immune-mediated disease that effects the skin. the Disease on an average affects about 10-2...Biocon is bringing Alzumab (a biologic) in the form of a vial after working on it for nearly a decade. The work ha...3911 days ago
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Which are the best statistical programming languages to study for a bioinformatician?
In Bio-informatics based genome sequencing and predicting metabolic pathways research jobs I used...e one specific language but a few that lend themselves best to Bio-informatics work th...3943 days ago
Selecting between Python 2 and Python 3?
Which version is best for bioinformatician to work on?3943 days ago
Linux SSH Client Commands for Bioinformatics
Here come on let play with the following basic command line usage of the ssh client.1. Check your SSH Client Vers...the remotehost in a new line enter the following key strokes for the below to work: ~...3697 days ago
A guide for complete R beginners :- Getting data into R
For a beginner this can be is the hardest part, it is also the most important to get r...If it has a header column mydata header=T also works Note that there is a comm...lsquo;NA’ . The last two examples will still work wi...3349 days ago
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Webinar: Wednesday 21 August 2013 at Noon EDT
This webinar will describe the use of combinatorial pooling to reconstruct gene sequences within BACs. Recent work in...3911 days ago
Barber pole worm , sheep pathogen sequenced !!!
Haemonchus contortus is a highly pathogenic parasitic nematode of that can infect a large number of wild and dome...rovide a comprehensive understanding of how treatments against parasitic worms work an...3888 days ago
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Bioinformatics PhD studentship available in New Zealand
Bioinformatics PhD studentship available in New Zealand The importance of transcrip...a willingness to learn and apply new techniques and work in a team. Both local and int...hile staying connected to world class scientific networks....3939 days ago
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Translational Bioinformatics: Transforming 300 Billion Points of Data
Translational Bioinformatics: Transforming 300 Billion Points of Data into Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and New Ins...te, a bioinformatician and pediatric endocrinologist, will highlight his lab's work on...3902 days ago
The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watso...ned in the average human genome. Now they're trying to interpret that code; to work ou...3898 days ago
Install BLAST in Ubuntu/Linux and Window !
#On ubuntu sudo apt-get install ncbi-blast+ #Ubuntu Conda installation conda install -c bioconda blast #...-blast-2.7.1+-win64.exe with your web browser. #If that FTP links does not work, t...1138 days ago
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Which of the following programming language is best for a bioinformatics beginner?
I will be doing NGS in the course of my research work and I will like to learn a programming language which is compatible with most bioinformatics tools or software. I basically...3522 days ago
Tryst with a Bioinformatician # Dr Altan Kara
Dr Altan Kara is a Bioinformatics specialist at the facu...please describe your research work in a nutshell for BOL users....At my current Institute, I am working in the field of cancer bio...which I developed during this work is accessible via http://meta...tand WHY the other researcher worked...2353 days ago
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The DNA of a Successful Bioinformatician decoded !!!
Many blogs exist about successful bioinformatician, but this blog so far now is my personal view on characteristics of successful bioinformatician or computational biologist. Hmm … of course these views are subjective to my own personal experiences and therefore I don't claim that th...Tags: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Strategy, Life, Work culture, Respect
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Comment on "Various scholarships around the world !!"
...y of the following fields: Education Culture Sciences Communi...th written and spoken, of English or French. A working knowledge of the other lan...tware. Team player: You should be able to work well in a team and adapt to an i...2718 days ago
Comment on "Various scholarships around the world !!"
...ort (up to AUD40,500) for Australian researchers to travel to India and work with leading researchers at m...increasing Australian researchers’ understanding of Indian culture, particularly the science and...2725 days ago