Podcast
Getting started in Bioinformatics: A step-by-step guide.
A guide and advice on how to get started, or how to transition into Bioinformatics for people with biology or programming backgrounds.
Bioinformatics Tools
Bioinformatics Tools Programming in Python with Qt. Part 1.
In Part 1 we look at PyQT setup, Qt Designer, UI converter tool and write a test application.
DNA Toolkit Series
DNA Toolkit Part 5, 6 & 7: Open Reading Frames, Protein Search in NCBI database
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 will also apply our code to a real piece of Read more…
DNA Toolkit Series
DNA Toolkit Part 4: Translation, Codon Usage
In this article we are taking a look at DNA Codon table and adding a Translation and Codon Usage functions to our DNA Toolkit.
DNA Toolkit Series
DNA Toolkit Part 3: GC Content Calculation
In this article we add GC Content Calculation functions to the DNA Toolkit
Bioinformatics Tools
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.
DNA Toolkit Series
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 and one data structure. The functions we add today will Read more…
DNA Toolkit Series
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 Series
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 is structured. You can use some very basic programming skills Read more…