Just finished the book The Fragile Light, by David Nurenberg. Good stuff; independent author. Worth reading.
Briefly, it's a SF&F novel about a world where mutants are sometimes heroes, and more often feared; where there are Herotown ghettoes full of supers; and where only licensed heroes can join in …
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I finally got sick of manually schlepping BLAST files around, so I wrote something to do it for me. 'zounds' is a very simple server/client system for coordinating a bunch of 'worker' nodes through a central server; it does everything in Python with objects and pickling, so it's easy …
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We've been talking about how to manage pygr resources remotely via the existing XML-RPC interface, and for that HTTPS is a requirement. I offered to track down the code necessary for running an XML-RPC server over HTTPS. Here's what I found:
It turns out that while the Python stdlib supports …read more
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On Thursday, May 15th, I finished my post-doc position at Caltech.
On Friday, May 16th, I officially started as an Assistant Professor split between Computer Science & Engineering and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University.
On Friday evening and Saturday, we hung out down at the Caltech Marine Lab and …
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I've been hit by a few different e-mail-related problems over the last few months, and it's becoming intensely frustrating.
Some servers seem to randomly drop messages from me, for no obvious reason; at least, people don't get one message and then do get another, a day later. gmail may be …
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(pygr is a neat bioinformatics framework in Python.)
After some commenters on my last post seemed happy to hear that pygr was the focus of some summer work, I realized I had only discussed the pygr summer work in a post to the biology-in-python list.
Whoops.
So, here's the scoop …
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Dear Lazyweb, help!
I'm embarking on a number of summer projects in my new lab at MSU, and several of them focus on using pygr to do cool genomic stuff. In particular, I'm planning to build a personal genome annotation system that will let people run their own full genome …
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