Category: Ramblings

Apparently I need to have a Windows, a Linux AND a Mac machine

By John on September 16, 2008 20:25 | comments 0 Comments

Right! Bioinformaticians are a industrious lot. Writing all kinds of software to make life easier for other scientists… But why do some write their software to work on only one OS? I know JAVA is not everything, but it works! And most scripting languages you can install and run on nearly every OS (Perl, Python, etc).

I found this article in my email and at first sight it looked nice and useful to me, but I’m not even gonna try to read the article and try the software… Because I don’t have a Mac…

Should I get a Mac?

categories Bioinformatics, Ramblings

Detecting homology

By John on July 14, 2008 19:00 | comments 0 Comments

I thought I had them all, but I was wrong. When is something not sharing homology and when do you just fail to detect? I think this is still a big problem in bioinformatics… Bitscores or E-values? Which method? Blast, PSI-Blast, HMMER? Argggh!!!!

categories Bioinformatics, Ramblings