Most humans think that they are the centre of the Universe. While in one way, the way they want to believe it, may not be true, they may be right in another way. Let’s dig further and explore if this is really true. We start by introducing the definition of a “metre”, a unit of… Read More »
Recap: Just to refresh for myself and all of you, what we have been looking at so far in the Protein Structure Series is understanding protein structures. While many text books already cover a lot of the basic stuff, these posts are especially structured for aspiring researchers who want to start working with protein structures… Read More »
The last post in the Protein Structure series ended with: “In the next post, I will use Biopython to import a structure and do some fairly introductory calculations”. In this post I will pick up from there. Installing Biopython While there are multiple ways in which one can make use of Biopython, I will use it… Read More »
Note the content listed here is the same used by the Software Carpentry community. Since it had already been well covered there, I am only reproducing it here. Please note that the instructions listed here worked up till June, 2018. Problems setting up Python may arise over time. The ones that I become aware of… Read More »
The previous post ended with: “The next post in this series will start by introducing the format used by RCSB in its structure files (PDBs) along with the first use of programming to interact with that data (apart from simply eyeballing it).” In the last post I brought up why we cannot “see” protein structures,… Read More »
Finally managed some time to continue with this series. The last post ended with: “The next post in this series will be a continuation of this work and will address our ability to determine protein structures experimentally and lead into public protein structure databases which we will be frequently using to analyse and get meaningful… Read More »
An introduction to this series: To be explicitly clear, these set of articles don’t intend to be superior to any other existing body of knowledge on the subject of protein structures. What is intended here is just another textbook introduction followed by a very context specific description of these beauties so… Read More »
Having not added content for a while I think its the right time to start putting together a series of articles centered around my area of expertise, namely Protein Structures. In this series of articles I will aim to cover some basic essentials about: Protein Structures. What are they? Why do we need structures? How… Read More »
IDRACK is now accepting expression of interests from students, faculties and universities to host scientific training workshops in 2019. If you are interested please follow the steps outlined below: If you haven’t already filled out the general scientific interest survey please do so now. Please visit our IDRACK’s Facebook page and comment on the latest post… Read More »
This is the first training event organised by IDRACK, in 2018, in collaboration with the Khwarizmi science society (KSS) and the Centre for Excellence in Solid State Physics at the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Objective: This workshop is being organised with two objectives in mind: To introduce Software Carpentry in Pakistan and encourage people to… Read More »