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Tracking progress in R

Kevin Kuang on R Programming | 19 Nov 2016

Admit it or not, we human beings become anxious and impatient when it comes to waiting. Especially when we are blindfolded — that is, we are unaware of how long we have to suffer the endless wait. As pointed out by Brad Allan Myers, arguably the designer of the progress bar…

The complete guide to installing DISOPRED 3 (Mac + Linux)

Kevin Kuang on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology | 24 Sep 2016

DISOPRED, initially published by Jones and Ward in 2003, is a tool that predicts intrinsically disordered regions (IDS) in proteins. The third major release of this software, aka DISOPRED 3, was made public in 2015 (Jones & Cozzetto). This great piece of software does not only operate as a standalone…