Bioinformatics is a broad field that interfaces a variety of life science disciplines with a variety of quantitative sciences. Questions on Bioinformatics are expected to have a direct biological component to them or they may belong on Stackoverflow or Superuser.
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How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts?
I have a few protein models I want to take pictures of with various ligands bound. It would be nice if I could do it from the same "position", but the only way I can figure out to repeat the same ...
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Source of DNA sequences
I'm working on a project where I am taking DNA sequences and translating the codons into musical notes. I have some good ideas of how to do this, I'm just not sure what sequences to work with. My case ...
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Can forensic DNA analysis be used to generate a visual approximation of a suspect?
In light of the current US supreme court case, I'm curious if enough information can be teased out of a DNA sample to get a "reasonable" approximation of the suspect (never mind the legality). I ...
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Expanding the SETI initiative to seek intelligent data within DNA sequences?
I've recently read a couple articles dealing with long term data storage, and DNA was suggested as one of the prime candidates for long term storage of digital data additionally, there is this article ...
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Confusion related to a term probe-by-background interaction
I was reading a paper related to bioinformatics where it uses the drug response on the cancer cells and the gene expression of the individual cells are studied to find any useful insights. Specially, ...
