A non-coders attempts at writing useful code
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2008
One of the fun parts of learning a programming language yourself is when you get stuck at solving a trivial problem . When this happens I generally try to do a few things generally involving searching . I have tabulated these activities and also the apparent value to me , both for my short-term solving [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2008
If anyone feels this post is provocatively titled. I can only offer as defence sagging traffic to this blog. But serioulsy! I am writing to defend what I perceive as a tendency among bioinformaticians to complain about Biologists and their tendency to not respect things like structured data , file formats , data portability and various other [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2008
If I were to list one of the most attractive things about python , the interactive command line would rank among the top few. Well today I was forced with a rather simple task. I had to order a primer for a sub-cloning experiment that was the reverse primer corresponding to the last twenty bases of a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2008
First for some disclaimers: I have not yet used chrome since I mostly use Linux and Mac OSX . Although I believe that forking and straying from the beaten path are great things , my gut reaction to the chrome announcement was that it was definitely going to dull the impact of firefox which google [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2008
I came across a submission to Nature Precedings this morning detailing the creation of a “semantic – natural language processing ” based search for the Pubmed database by Cognition Technologies in collaboration with a team at the Department of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical centre in Dallas. A few searches later, I can definitely say the technology [...]