Converting sequences by squizz

Posted: 2016-07-06 | Author: | Filed under: Academic | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Sometimes 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 »

Convert mp3 tags encoding

Posted: 2014-10-18 | Author: | Filed under: media | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I need to change the language encoding of some mp3 files, because they are not displayed properly in Clementine. The song names and albums are in Cyrillic, so I wanted to convert all tags text to CP1251. Read the rest of this entry »

Batch resize of pictures

Posted: 2014-10-08 | Author: | Filed under: Academic, media | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I 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 »

Converting html

Posted: 2014-09-19 | Author: | Filed under: misc, office | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I need to convert a simple webpage to PDF and picture format. Usually, I would just take a screenshot, however it is too big. I searched and I found a nice little tool, called wkhtmltopdf. Read the rest of this entry »