Category Archives: Bioinformatics
More Accurate Multiple Sequence Alignment
The 20 June 2008 issue of Science contains a paper by Art Löytynoja and Nick Goldman titled “Phylogeny-aware gap placement prevents errors in sequence alignment and evolutionary analysis.” The authors tackled the difficult problem of how to handle correctly the … Continue reading
Book Review: Learning Python, 3rd Edition (1)
Utterly bewitched by this dramatic and thrilling panel from an xkcd.com comic strip, I have decided that it is time I learned the Python programming language. I come to Python as a bioinformatics scientist who is experienced in C, C++, … Continue reading
Book Review: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, was written by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane and published by O’Reilly in May, 2004. I purchased this book in 2005 when I was doing some consulting for a microarray … Continue reading
Re: Notes to a Young Computational Biologist
This is a story of how clueless I can be, but how sometimes, given a sufficient number of opportunities, I can become clueful again. On 13 March 2007, Bosco Ho wrote a post entitled “Notes to a Young Computational Biologist” … Continue reading
