Bioinformatics, Programming and Open-Source Science

A guide and advice on how to get started, or how to transition into Bioinformatics for people with biology or programming backgrounds.

Let’s look at how we can program Hamming Distance algorithm in three different ways.

DNA Engine project structure and class setup.

Python dictionary, Rust HashMap and a DNA Reverse Complement function.

In Part 1 we look at PyQT setup, Qt Designer, UI converter tool and write a test application.

Strings, Functions, Random number generation and Rust crates/modules.

In this series of articles, we will explore a young and very exciting programming language — Rust. We will see how Rust can help us to speed up some of our existing and future Python code. Many agree, that the Read more…

In this article, we conclude our work on a minimal set of functions to work with DNA. We will add the last three functions that will help us to search for proteins in DNA sequences by generating reading frames. We Read more…

In this article we are taking a look at DNA Codon table and adding a Translation and Codon Usage functions to our DNA Toolkit.

In this article we add GC Content Calculation functions to the DNA Toolkit