Visual CSL editor
Posted: 2015-12-19 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: CSL, references, zotero Leave a commentI type my text in LibreOffice and use Zotero to take care of the references. Zotero has a list of many different citation styles, which likely already includes the one for the journal you are submitting your manuscript to. Read the rest of this entry »
Disable automatic updates check in Zotero
Posted: 2015-09-10 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: about:config, bibliography, zotero Leave a commentI have been using the Zotero biobliography manager, installed from SBo. Despite that I am the current maintainer of the program at SBo, I cannot immediatelly provide an update of its SlackBuild, when a new version comes out.
Annoyingly, Zotero would insist on showing a notification that a new version is available, offering to update the installation. Read the rest of this entry »
ALINE: colouring, numbering and annotation
Posted: 2015-04-06 Filed under: academic | Tags: aline, annotation, colour, msa, numbering, protein, sequence Leave a commentAline is an extensible WYSIWYG protein sequence alignment editor for publication quality figures. It can read common sequence alignment formats which the user can then alter, embellish, markup etc to produce the kind of sequence figure commonly found in biochemical articles. Read the rest of this entry »
Protein MSA secondary structure
Posted: 2015-02-14 Filed under: academic | Tags: alignment, amino acid, Chimera, msa, protein, secondary structure Leave a commentI needed to predict the secondary structure of amino acid sequences, already in a multiple sequence alignment (MSA). This means that the sequences had gaps, which could be a problem. I searched the net for a suitable, easy-to-use application or online server. Read the rest of this entry »
Batch resize of pictures
Posted: 2014-10-08 Filed under: academic, media | Tags: convert, imagemagic, mogrify, resize, scale Leave a commentI had generated graphics from the Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool (S.M.A.R.T.) in the highest possible resolution. However, later on I needed to scale down the graphics.
How to do that? Read the rest of this entry »
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