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 »
The previous post illustrated in a simple way the use of Python for scientific computing purposes. This article extends the previous post by introducing the concept of parallel programming. The previous example will be used, so if you haven’t run that yet, I suggest you do that now. Modifications will be made to the previous… Read More »
Building on the previous post, which covered a very simple example using a for loop, this post will take things up a notch. As discussed before, there are many resources available on the internet for learning Python. This blog doesn’t attempt to teach you Python. Instead it provides exposure on using the Python programming language… Read More »
Python: Python is a scripting language that is commonly used in scientific computing. Being popular amongst researchers and growing in popularity by the day, it is a very important skill set to have for young people to be successful in their careers. So after that opening note lets get down to programming. There are many… Read More »
The previous post introduced the concept of looking at all physical processes as mathematical models. In this article we will look at converting your computer in a lab by not just talking about it, but actually doing it as well. While the previous article served as introductory material, I think it didn’t do justice (enough)… Read More »
Ever wonder what the true power of the computer you own? This blog is all about science so what I am going to try and do is to put some ideas out there which you can use to do research. It doesn’t matter who you are, what age group you belong to, if you have… Read More »
The previous post focused a little on protein synthesis and briefly discussed protein sequences and some areas in which they are used. Another important area of protein bioinformatics is protein structure. This post introduces the basis of protein structure. Protein Structure: Once the synthesis of polypeptide chains (proteins) at the ribosome is complete, the polypeptide… Read More »
Introduction: Proteins are biomolecules that carry out all the functions necessary to support life. They are synthesised using the information contained within the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). DNA comprises of four nucleotides cytosine [C], guanine [G], adenine [A] or thymine [T]. These four bases are repeated along the length of the DNA. Portion of these repeats… Read More »
Objective of this post: Inspire readers from Pakistan to join the distributed computing platform discussed in this article and dedicate their idle compute time to projects that need computational resources. Computers are cool. They can process a lot of instructions and they can do that very fast. Over the last couple of decades, humans have… Read More »