Inparablog

Last week I read an article by Fourment and Gillings, A comparison of common programming languages used in bioinformatics [pubmed][doi] in BMC Bioinformatics. It basically is about a comparison of programming languages often used in bioinformatics. They compare Perl, Python, C, C++, C#(.NET) and java. The authors stress that each particular language has advantages for [...]

This actually works! #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; print “1e-1″ * “3″, “\n”; This certainly does make my life easier with respect to HMMER and Blast E-values!

Second day at the BBC in Leuven. Quite some interesting stories that day! One talk was about using structure information to analyze how proteins bind to protein domains which are common in signal transduction. The second speaker actually told us something similar to what I have been doing for my Masters. Though not the same, [...]

First day at the BBC in Leuven. My low expectations about the organization were confirmed, but the talks were good and that´s what counts. First was one of the keynote speakers: Charles Lawrence. He works on RNA secondary structure prediction. He warned us about maximizing likelyhoods, free energies etc. because they might not represent the actual population of [...]

Today is the first day of the Benelux Bioinformatics Conference at Leuven. I have been here since saturday so I`m sort of getting used to the French keyboard layout . Leuven is a beautifull little city with lots of old buildings and good food, so I can recommend visiting. Anyway, I have to be off [...]

Since October last year I’ve been working as a PhD student at the Theoretical Biology group of the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University. I actually work for the Physiological Chemistry group of Prof. dr. Bos at the Academic Medical Centre, but that’s another story… Below I will explain a bit about what I am [...]