Bringing practical bioinformatics to high school classrooms
Back in July a litter of OPIGlets went rooting for interesting science at ISMB/ECCB 2019 in Basel, Switzerland. When not presenting, working on my sunburn, or paying nine Francs for a beer, I made a...
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A Month in Basel – Summer 2019
I had an opportunity to visit Basel, Switzerland for a month between mid-July to mid-August. The first week began with the ISMB/ECCB Conference 2019, which was a 5 days event. The average temperature...
View ArticleA new way of eating too much
Fresh off the pages of Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism comes a warning no self-respecting sweet tooth should ignore. “Liquorice is not just a candy,” write a team of ten from...
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Some more Python tips and tricks
There are a few useful but often underutilised Python 3 syntactic tricks that I have picked up over the last few years; I have chosen to continue in the spirit of Mark and share them here. args and...
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Chat bots and the Turing test
When I recently tested out the voice activation features on my phone, I was extremely impressed with how well it understood not only the actual words I was saying, but also the context. The last time...
View ArticleWhy you should care about startups as a researcher
I was recently awarded the EIT Health Translational Fellowship, which aims to fund DPhil projects with the goal of commercializing the research and addressing the funding gap between research and seed...
View ArticleHandling electron density in python for fun and profit
No-one ever observed a pdb file in nature. The experimental data we build our protein models from is not quite so nicely paramterised. The vast makority of models are fit into electron density maps,...
View ArticleProf. Charlotte Deane on the World Service
Prof. Charlotte Deane, the new Deputy Executive Chair of the EPSRC, Deputy Head of Division of MPLS, and Head of the Oxford Protein Informatics Group, was interviewed by BBC World Service’s programme...
View ArticleLe Tour de Farce v7.0 (or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wheels)
Come rain or shine, every summer we leave our desks and journey across Oxford’s finer drinking establishments. This year’s Le Tour de Farce was held on 11 June [1]. The trip is traditionally done by...
View ArticleA collection of prion factoids
It’s been several years since I last presented a talk on prions to OPIG, so I thought a neat way of getting up to date would be to read “The prion 2018 round tables“. What’s the current understanding...
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