ABRF 2019: Immuno-biotechnology and bioinformatics in Community Colleges

ABRF 2019: Immuno-biotechnology and bioinformatics in Community Colleges: Join us at the ABRF annual meeting for a poster presentation on Immuno-biotech and bioinformatics. Abstract Immuno-biotechnology and bioinformatics in Community Colleges By: Todd M. Smith, Sandra G. Porter, Dina Kovarik Digital World Biology and Shoreline Community College | Read More

Bio Databases 2019: Immunology

Bio Databases 2019: Immunology: DWBio.com Science Blog | I always look forward to sharing the Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) database issue. This year's blog topic is immunology. The NAR archive lists 31 immunologic databases, but only seven or so are active, and others are not listed in the NAR archive. Read the blog learn more.

How is a bioinformatician like Odysseus?

How is a bioinformatician like Odysseus?: DWBio.com Science Blog | Bioinformatics is full of unexpected adventures. Some are related to data discoveries, but many more are related to navigating the maize of software needed to implement a solution. | Immuno-bioinformatics, Immunoprofiling, Shoreline Community College ... Read More

Turning into pumpkins with Molecule World

Turning into pumpkins with Molecule World: DWBio.com Science Blog | A fun thing we can do with molecular models is to create art. In Molecule World™, the residue coloring option applies a different color to each amino acid and nucleotide.  When we're characterizing a protein and trying to understand its function, the residue coloring option helps us identify repetitive or unusual amino acid sequences, but we can also ...

Singularity: can it go to infinity?

Singularity: can it go to infinity?: Singularity: the point at which a function takes an infinite value.

"Eew!" Is how high performance computing (HPC) admins react to Docker, according to Dr. Vanessa Saurus when she described the motivation for developing Singularity [1] at the Cyverse Container Camp(link is external).  Like Docker, Singularity allows one to package programs and their dependencies in ways that they can be run as virtual instances with low overhead. Singularity improves on Docker to make it possible to run containers in HPC environments such as super computers.  Read the full blog. 

Docker - can it be contained?

Docker - can it be contained?: Containerization technologies like Docker are designed to solve challenges associated with installing and running complex software such as bioinformatics pipelines and web servers. Docker will change the world ... maybe. While clearly powerful and enabling, the magic of Docker can also be an overpromise. To understand why, you need to understand the “The Law of Leaky Abstractions.”

Microbiome and Metagenomics Benchtop to Bioinformatics: Technical Approaches to Sequencing, DNA Extractions, and Data Analysis

Microbiome and Metagenomics Benchtop to Bioinformatics: Technical Approaches to Sequencing, DNA Extractions, and Data Analysis: Want to incorporate microbiome and metagnomics research into your lab or teaching? Sign up for the ABRF 2018 microbiome and metagnomics workshop. It may not teach you to zip-line through fire, but you will learn how to generate and manage a fire hose worth of data from microbiome projects.

Solving the Bioinformatics Singularity with Containers

Solving the Bioinformatics Singularity with Containers: ​​​​​The technological Singularity is the moment beyond which "technological progress will become incomprehensibly rapid and complicated [1].” Hmmm.  That sounds like bioinformatics. Read more at Digital World Biology.

Getting Started with Infrared Photography

Getting Started with Infrared Photography: Infrared (IR) photography creates pictures in a whole new light. When I first experimented with infrared in the late 70's early 80's it was with black and white infrared film using a dark red Wratten 89b IR filter. It was okay, but not great. Digital cameras change that by opening the experience to easy experimentation to explore color and black and white.

Socializing Social Media

Socializing Social Media From communicating with friends and colleagues, to promoting business, to influencing elections, social media’s impact can be significant ... read more at Digital World Biology