Let’s set up a code editor for Python and Bioinformatics
In this article we install and set-up VSCode/VSCodium editor and a few plugins to make running any code easy, with just a key combination.
Want to get into programming or bioinformatics but not sure where to start?
Thoughts on the classic question: “Where should I start as a beginner and how do I choose a project?”
DNA Toolkit Part 2: Transcription and Reverse Complement
Welcome back! Today we continue working on our DNA Toolkit project. In our last article, we created the first two functions: validate_seq and nucleotide_frequency. We are not going to change the file structure, though we will add two more functions Read more…
DNA Toolkit Part 1: Validating and counting nucleotides
In this article we start our work on a DNA Toolkit. We write and test our first two functions, DNA Validation and Nucleotide Count functions.
DNA Toolkit: Introduction
This amazing video (below) from the ‘MITx Bio’ team introduces a viewer to the structure of the DNA molecule. While it is an amazing way to learn about DNA, you can do so much more than just understand how it Read more…