Friday, May 30, 2014

RISE START projects, ASPIRE project, summer 2014

Hierarchical clustering analysis

Metric survey data analysis

Network robustness


NIH R25 short coures on mathematcal, statistical and computational tools for studying biological systems



http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-351.html

Short Courses on Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Tools for Studying Biological Systems (R25)

Thursday, May 29, 2014

network hSNP, CNV note

CNV genes show no SNP with frequency from Bio-Q and Ensemble.

http://bioq.saclab.net/query/submit.php?db=bioq_dbsnp_human_138


Monday, May 26, 2014

SAT score by states 2013


http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/policyblog/detail/sat-scores-by-state-2013

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Volunteers need for a two-day Python programming bootcamp at Spelman College

Experienced Python programmers are needed to work as TAs for a two-day Software Carpentry Bootcamp at Spelman College on June 10-11, 2014.

This two-day bootcamp is scheduled to have 1/2 day on shell programming, 2 half-days on Python programming, 1 half-day on version control using Git. Software Carpentry lesson can be seen at http://software-carpentry.org/lessons.html.  TAs do not have to volunteer for two days.

Please contact hqin at spelman dot edu if you can.



Journals, annual research and review in biology


Dear Colleague,

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College retreat

May 22, 2014, 9am->4pm 
Loudermilk Center 
40 Courtland Street, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30303


Wednesday, May 21, 2014

HP color laser jet to Maverick laptop.

HP lasterjet color M551 driver is recognzied by Maverick.

Add printer by IP, and the driver is recognized.





Reference:
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/mostViewedDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=4184772&spf_p.tpst=psiContentDisplay&spf_p.prp_psiContentDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c03413323-7%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken



Tuesday, May 20, 2014

dbSNP ftp site


ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/database/organism_data/

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/database/organism_data/OmimVarLocusIdSNP.bcp.gz

Schema
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/database/organism_schema/

Moodle 2.5, trainining


http://spelman2-sandbox.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/109/mod_label/intro/Whats%20New%20in%202.pdf


Major changes:
Drag and drop uploading
Book
Book publisher's IMS content package

My Private files: available in all courses under my account.

Conditionally access resources: Click syllabus and then complete the next assignment. 

Course completion check. 

Questions: 50M is the maximal size for uploading file? 



Saturday, May 17, 2014

Github DOI setup and educational discount, todo


https://github.com/blog/1840-improving-github-for-science

Todo: Need to generate DOI for R comp biol repo.


orders, bio386



calibur beads


http://store.apple.com/us/product/H7612VC/A/xtrememac-tango-bar-usb-powered-speaker

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD568LL/A/wacom-intuos-pen-and-touch-tablet-small?fnode=56


Monday, May 12, 2014

instructional software request to install

R
Rstudio

MEGA
SWISS PDB Viewer
ApE

Respondus locker browser

FASEB MARC faculty/mentor travel award

http://www.faseb.org/MARC-and-Professional-Development/Travel-Awards/Scientific-Meetings-and-Conferences.aspx#TypeTravelAwards

two students

One form

response heard within days

x Chair support letter

Statement of understanding are emailed to me and the two students. Everyone signed, with a copy of ssn card.


Friday, May 9, 2014

Reflection on performance of multiple choice questions in exams

For four-choiced question, if the error rate is around 75%, it indicates that the 4 choices are randomly selected. On the other hand, an error rate over 90% indicates that a wrong choice was preferred by most exam-takers.

So, around 75% error rate indicates that exam-takers are basically clueless, whereas over 90% error rate indicate a mis-understanding.






Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Location of Software Carpentry Workshop, Spelman College, June 10-11, 2014


Driving direction to Spelman College main entrance.
Spelman College
440 Westview Dr. S.W. 
Atlanta 30310

(Note that GPS of the Spelman mailing address will lead you to the pedestrian entrance)

Location:
Albro-Falconer-Manely Science Center, Room 232, Spelman College
(Building 19c on Spelman campus map. AFM Science center is located at the rear-right corner of the campus from the parking lot. )



bio233, materials to order, for Fall semester, 2014


95% ethanol large bottle
nutrient plate agar
small bottles for ethanol. Idodine. Crystal violet.

bibulous papers
filter papers

slides for gram stains

one roll of parafilm

BPB pH color indicator for fermentation lab. 

calibur beads


brightline hemacytometer chamber


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QIAGEN DNA purification kit

zymo kit, plasmid kits




Spelman Letter grade scale


Tuesday, May 6, 2014

multidimensional scaling in R


http://www.r-bloggers.com/multidimensional-scaling-mds-with-r/


Journal of Biology and Medicine, todo



As part of our continuing mission to enrich the sharing of ideas between medical and scientific communities around the world, 
Journal of Biology and Medicineinvites contributions from researchers related to Biology and Medicine.

We strongly believe that this potential research in the field of medicine would be beneficial to the people working in this field.

Thus on behalf of Journal of Biology and Medicine, we invite you to present your view on your research as a short note/ mini review/ full review, for our upcoming issue (Volume 6, Issue 2).

Submit manuscript at: 
editor.blm@omicsgroup.biz or editorialmanager.com/medicalsciences

We would truly gratify and appreciate receiving your submission. We are waiting for your Quick and positive reply.

For any other queries please feel free to contact us.

With thanks
Koyada. S
Associate Managing Editor
for Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Biology and Medicine
editor.blm@omicsgroup.biz

Monday, May 5, 2014

TeamViewer on osX

Install TeamViewer on a mac server.

It gave "Your ID" and "password".


On a client computer, I installed TeamViewer. Entered the TeamViewerID on the server, followed the password, and it worked.



Remove logmeIn from MountainLion

cd /Library/Application Support/
sudo mv  LogMeIn\ Plugin  LogmeIn\  Plugin.toRemove
sudo mv  LogMeIn  LogmeIn.toRemove

cd /Application
sudo mv LogmeInIgnition.app LogmeInIgnition.app.toRemove



bio125 final exam.

Five students finished the 40-question closed book part in 1 hour.
Most students spent 50-70 minutes on the 12 question bioinformatics section for their first attempt. Student usually spent very short time on their second attempt.



There are 12 questions in the open book part, I set the total score to 10.  I found this mistake after students submitted their answers. I adjust the total score to 12 while students are still taking the exam, the grades are updated and Moodle did not complain.

By 1pm, only 3 students are left.




Friday, May 2, 2014

Journal of Data Mining in Genomics and Proteomics




 
On behalf of editorial board of Journal of Data Mining in Genomics & Proteomics we invite you to submit a manuscript or review to be considered for upcoming issues.
 
We would like to bring to your kind notice regarding the upcoming special issue for the year 2014.
Special Issue Title Handling Editor
Bioinformatics for High throughput Sequencing UlliWeier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Data annotation and Management Maria Krestyaninova, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, UK
Datamining in the Cloud Jennifer Dommer, National Institutes of Health, USA
Integrative Biology: Lupus Nephritis Tianfu Wu, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Protein Modelling SonaVasudevan, Georgetown University, USA
Systems Biology : Biomarker Discovery FirasKobeissy , University of Florida, USA
Bioinformatics Tools and Techniques: Datamining SuparnaMitra, University of Tuebingen Germany
Algorithm Evalution and Validation in Proteomics Tamanna Sultana, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Algorithms for Molecular Biology TurgayIbrikci, Cukurova University, Turkey
Genome Annotation Jorge Cancela, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
 
You may submit your paper online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/omicsgroup/ or as e-mail attachment to the Editorial Office at editor.jdmgp@omicsonline.org
For more details on submission process and manuscript preparation please click http://omicsonline.org/instructionsforauthors-data-mining-in-genomics-proteomics-open-access.php