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]
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
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 used for embedding applets that query scientific instrumentation. We’ve also added a link for V_Sim which is a molecular structure viewer out of the L_Sim at CEA, France’s version of the Department of Energy.
[tags]opensource, software, science[/tags]
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
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 distributions are available for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". It supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window. It is multithreaded, so time-consuming operations such as image file reading can be performed in parallel with other operations.
Find ImageJ at: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
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 profile images of cats trying to re-enter the house to known features of their two cats. If the cat is carrying something in its mouth, the door remains closed. If the cat is mouse-free, the door opens.
They don’t say if the two cats ever worked together to defeat the system, but they do show an image of a skunk (black-hat hackers that they are) rattling the knob to come in.
It would be really cool if the source code was available.
[tags]cats, hacking[/tags]
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 seen video of Lehrer performing before, so this is a rare treat. Look closely when he writes the word “minimum” on the board.
[tags]math, piano, Fermat[/tags]
Woo hoo! The
Flying Spaghetti Monster Car Emblems are now available from Ring of Fire.
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 concentration on the dynamics of water in the hydration layer around proteins and micelles.
Check it out!
[tags]water, dynamics, chemistry[/tags]
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 on college campuses. It wasn’t until I walked past her a few minutes later that I saw the very small bluetooth headset that was mostly hidden by her wild hair. So here’s my take on Arthur Clarke’s famous quotation:
Users of sufficiently advanced technology are indistinguishable from the mentally ill.
You heard it here first.
[tags]technology[/tags]
