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Python for Bioinformatics: An Online Course from Me!
I teach an on-line course ‘Python/Biopython for Bioinformatics’ in cBLAST. This is three month’s course, I use biological examples showing how we use Python to handle and analyze biological data. The video lectures are in Bangla, and video’s are both slides and screen-casts of coding. Center for Bioinformatics Learning Advancement and Systematic Training, or cBLAST,…
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A note on learning computational biology
Many asks me about learning Bioinformatics. So, I’m going to put some good learning resources in this note.
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How to use McFarland solution to visually compare bacterial culture
Say you have a bacterial isolate and you need to check its antibiotic resistance profile. In this case, you need to do an antibiogram study. Ideally, you’ll need to make bacterial lawn on Mueller-Hinton agar medium for doing antibiogram. For that purpose, you prepare bacterial culture from stock in nutrient broth and place it in…
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State of traffic-jam in Dhaka during political instability, 2015
The year 2015 started with acute political crisis in Bangladesh. One of the major political party, BNP, called for an endless blockage until or unless present government leading by AL leave their power and another national election get organized. As the method of political block, BNP organized terrorist ambush activities such as petrol bomb attack…
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Achieving Expertise: How to Find the Elusive Origin of Replication Site in DNA?
This write-up was for a writing assignment in Coursera.com MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) , English Composition I: Achieving Expertise offerd from Duke University. There were four assignments, I submitted first two of them and later became very busy with my M.S. thesis work. The second assignment was to select a random picture and writing…
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Review of ‘The Sweet Spot’: Why Pour Old Wine in a New Bottle?
This write-up was for a writing assignment in Coursera.com MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) , English Composition I: Achieving Expertise offerd from Duke University. There were four assignments, I submitted first two of them and later became very busy with my M.S. thesis work. The first one was a review of first chapter of the…
Learn Python for Bioinformatics
I have created a set of worksheets that give a quick overview of Python for Bioinformatics (as well as intro to UNIX). You just have to give it 3-6 hours, and you will know the essentials!