The art of blowing up protein

A segfault and NaN driven series of disconnected ideas, analyses and just plain silly posts about computational biochemistry, synthetic biology and microbiology.

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Saturday, 31 October 2015

Fluorescent fats

Desaturated fats generally have a methylene-interrupted configuration, where a double bond is separated by two single bonds. Conjugated fat...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Pseudomonas, Ralstonia and Burkholderia: HGT buddies

Recently I was reminded of an interesting thing that intrigued me: Ralstonia and Burkholderia were formerly classed as Pseudomonas spp. ...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

A note about serving static files with Python's wsgi

The best way to learn how to use python for the web is to make something simple in Flask, revisit the tutorial on how to set stuff up with m...

Sunday, 11 October 2015

KEGG map colo(u)rs

KEGG has a handy map colouring feature , where one can feed it a list of KEGG IDs from whatever database of theirs and a colour, which it wi...

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

PrettyFastaJS

I wrote a small script to allow one to easily and prettily embed both nucleic acid and protein FASTA sequences on a webpage (it guesses ba...

Monday, 28 September 2015

Pythonic spinner

Python is fun: it has lovely libraries, is a beauty to type and there are constant surprises — I only recently found out that 3.4 had intro...

Publication-driven complexification

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —A. Clarke's Third Law I like knowing what I am...

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Matteo Ferla: English/Italian computational biochemist at the University of Oxford in OPIG/XChem, formerly in Oxford BRC genomic medicine subtheme. All opinions my own.

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