Heroes III in a Windows VM
Posted: 2016-07-09 Filed under: game | Tags: Heroes, HotA, VCMI, virtualbox, windows 2 CommentsOver a year ago, I wrote a post about playing Heroes III natively in Linux thanks to the VCMI project. Unfortunatelly, the VCMI engine is not yet stable enough for me to consider the game playable. It turned out to crash way too often, and sometimes the AI players behave in a pretty weird way.
I got tired of it and looked for an alternative approach, at least until VCMI gets more stable. Read the rest of this entry »
Converting sequences by squizz
Posted: 2016-07-06 Filed under: Academic | Tags: amino acid, convert, DNA, msa, protein, sequence, squizz Leave a commentSometimes I need to have a DNA or amino acid sequence (or an alignment) in several different formats. A neat little program that can convert between different sequence formats is squizz. Its primary function is to serve as a sequence format file checker, but can do some conversions. Read the rest of this entry »
Geneconv: detect gene conversion
Posted: 2016-07-04 Filed under: Academic | Tags: conversion, DNA, gene, GENECONV, msa, sequence 3 CommentsGeneconv is a program for detecting gene conversion between aligned DNA sequences. It can also search for gene conversion fragments from outside the alignment. The output results are ranked by P-values and presented in a spreadsheet manner. The data are valuable for bioinformatics studies and papers that deal with evolution.
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