Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

VLinux

We’ve got a new link today to VLinux in our Bioinformatics section. VLinux is a Live CD for Bioinformatics. It contains various sequence and structure analysis tools (including EMBOSS,GDE,Rasmol,PyMOL,GROMACS,Phylip,Arka/Genpak,ClustalW/ClustalX,TCoffee, Seaview,Garlic, Ramachandran Plot viewer, Primer, XMolCalc, NJPlot, and more). [tags]bioinformatics,linux[/tags]

Share
Posted in Software | 1 Comment

VLinux

VLinux is a Linux Live CD for Bioinformatics. It contains various sequence and structure analysis tools. The following packages are included in the present VLinux distribution. EMBOSS,GDE,Rasmol,PyMOL,GROMACS,Phylip,Arka/Genpak,ClustalW/ClustalX,TCoffee, Seaview,Garlic, Ramachandran Plot viewer, Primer, XMolCalc, NJPlot etc Find VLinux at: http://bioinformatics.org/vlinux

Share
Posted in Bioinformatics | Leave a comment

V_Sim and ImageJ

We’ve got two new user-contributed software links today. ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program which can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images that looks like it might be really useful when … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Software | Leave a comment

V_Sim

V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries, etc. V_Sim can use information from files in binary d3 format, in ascii, or in "xyz" format. Find V_Sim at: http://www-drfmc.cea.fr/sp2m/L_Sim/V_Sim/index.en.html

Share
Posted in Molecule Viewers and Editors | Leave a comment

ImageJ

ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. Downloadable … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Tools | Leave a comment

The Flo Control Project

I just stumbled across this great site. The owners of two mouse-happy cats wanted to prevent them from bringing them in the house, so they hacked an image recognition system onto a commercially available cat door that would compare the … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Fun | Leave a comment

Tom Lehrer Video

The Internet Archive has this wonderful video of Tom Lehrer giving a mathematics concert. Or a piano and fourier transform lecture. Or something halfway between the best math class you’ve ever taken and a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. I’ve never … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Fun | 1 Comment

FSM Car Emblems!

Woo hoo! The Flying Spaghetti Monster Car Emblems are now available from Ring of Fire.

Share
Posted in Fun | Leave a comment

Biman Bagchi’s Review on Water Dynamics

Another scientist who has become obsessed by water: This paper is Biman Bagchi’s latest contribution in Chemical Reviews [Chem. Rev. 105, 3197-3219 (2005)]. It is a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-field of research on water structure and dynamics, with particular … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Science | 3 Comments

Cell Phone or Schizophrenia?

I walked into campus this morning behind a woman speaking in a very loud voice to no one in particular. Her hands were gesticulating wildly and she sounded very agitated. She was wearing scruffy clothes, but that’s not very strange … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Fun | Leave a comment