Tag: Science

Binary heaps are binary trees that are sorted in such a way that the parent leaf is either greater or lesser than both of its child nodes. When the root node is the greatest and each parent is greater than its children, then it’s a max heap. In the opposite scenario, we have…

Graphs are amazing. Bipartiteness is a characteristic of certain graphs. A graph is bipartite if and only if you can color each node one of two two colors in such a way that no two adjacent nodes have the same color. Well, that’s the realization of the actual definition, which…

I’m working with the Velvet Assembler as part of my virus identification project. When I’m not trying to write a perl module to complement the already-bulky script files that I’m working with,  I like to do something that I usually wish most other bioinformatics scientists I’ve met would do as…

import distance b=“GACTCCTTTGTTTGCCTTAAATAGATACATATTTACTCTTGACTCTTTTGTTGGCCTTAAATAGATACATATTTGTGCGACTCCACGAGTGATTCGTA” a=“ATGGACTCCTTTGTTTGCCTTAAATAGATACATATTCAACAAGTGTGCACTTAGCCTTGCCGACTCCTTTGTTTGCCTTAAATAGATACATATTTG” c=0 da=“” db=“” for j in range(32,41):     for i in range(len(a)-j):         c1=0         for k in range(len(b)-j):             if distance.hamming(a[i:i+j], b[k:k+j])<=3:                 c1+=1    …

Ever since I got to Ithaca at the Boyce Thompson Institute, I’ve had to learn how to program in Perl, a  less elegant version of my weapon of choice, Python. An underscore? Next, you’ll be telling me to use goto and watch the world burn. My computer-esque tasks have included…

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? – Henry David Thoreau My new scorecard I crawled out of bed on a warm, brisk Monday morning, waiting for my energy to kick in and let me go out for a run before…

I don’t know what’s worse. The fact that I slept for maybe 10 hours last night or the fact that I don’t feel too guilty about it. I thought I was going to “take a nap” around 7:00 pm, but ended up sleeping until midnight. At that point, I decided…