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Category Archives: Blog
The new biologists fashion: Bacterial Physiology- Bringing back the old stuff
The “post-antibiotic era” announced by the WHO, which was an update from April-2015 of an older report [1], suggests the need to understand bacteria is urgent as it ever was. We have been sailing the winds of Fleming from his … Continue reading
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Bacterial cell division
The heat-stable protein HU was isolated first by Josette Rouviere-Yaniv and Gros in 1975 in a study where they systematically screened using an DNA-binding affinity-purification method for heat-stable proteins from E. coli cell extracts (1). This protein has been implicated … Continue reading
Posted in Bacterial cell division, Blog
Tagged bacterial cell division, E. coli, HupA, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nucleoid
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Image magick
ImageMagick Mogrify: Convert multiple files in a series mogrify -format jpg *.ppm This will convert multiple files in a directory in the PPM format into JPG format. To prevent overwriting old files by accident create a fresh directory. More details … Continue reading
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Google scripting
List of spreadsheet formulae on google-drive
Posted in Blog, Scientific computing, Scripting, Uncategorized
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Random
A short poem by Luis Borges on the Rigor in Science inspires me and encapsulates my lab’s philosophy (whcih I first encountered in the preamble to Rob Philips, Julie Theriot and Jane Kondev’s excellent book on “Physical Biology of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Reductionism vs. Systems
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Pet physicist
#petphysicist2 is up! Enjoy #petphysicist1: The first in a series. Inspired by discussions with experimental biologists, physicists and close friends. None of the characters are meant to harm any person, animal or idea.
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Survival VI (visual editor)
A simple set of commands you MUST know to use VI (visual editor), the editor that comes bundled with most UNIX/Linux flavoured systems. Basically it has 2 modes- command and edit. Usually you will want to edit something. So you … Continue reading
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Outdoors
Given the increasing density of traffic and its effect on the quality of life of the city, one of the most neglected means of personal transport is the bicycle. An eloquent picture to it. Hiking from Pune is a “piece … Continue reading
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New Bibliography Formats in Mendeley
Modifying Mendeley Using mendeley the citation manager tool, I needed to expand the limited formats available. To create your own citation style: 1) Citation Style Language (CSL) file with the right specifications. This is a form of XML. Use a … Continue reading
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Ethics in Science
A superficial reading of popular media on science plagiarism, doctored results, falsification, backstabbing, sabotage appear to suggest that these have spilt over only recently from other hyper-competitive professions. But appearances are deceptive. This (as with many other human traits) has … Continue reading →