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Best Posts of this Blog

Hey, I just realized that I’ve had this blog for more than 8 years, but never put out a best-of list. I’ve chosen these based mostly on my blog stats. So here goes.

Three posts that went kind-a viral (stumbleupon, metafilter, reddit etc.)

• A Sign, a Flipped Structure, and a Scientific Flameout of Epic Proportions

• The 2 billion dollar protein sequencing error

• Some reflections on programming in D, and why it kicks serious ass over C++, leaving it dead and broken on the sidewalk

My computational structural biology posts:

• Notes to a young computational biologist

• The Ten Commandments of Protein Folding

• A Decade in Computational Structural Biology

• The Minimal Set of Equipment to do Computational Biology

Some more technical writeups that gets referred to a lot (especially by students of the subcontinent if you know what I mean):

• RMSD: Root Mean Square Deviation

• Calculating the solvent Accessible Surface Area 

Some posts about science publishing:

• How the Scientific Publishing Industry Began to Eat Itself

• The bioinformatic-journal/software hydrid

And a love letter to python:

• Why I think Python is good (as in granola) for the scientist who programs

I study proteins and indulge in programming. See resume for more details.

I also write about science, books, and other stuff. I do my utmost to see live performances. But most people come here for computational structural biology.

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I live in the gorgeous city of Melbourne, but when I travel, I travel with Manneken Pis.

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