The project I am working on at present is focused on building an automated system for tracking the movement of honeybees in an observation hive, filmed using a grayscale camera and infrared light. My recent attempt at this has involved extracting features (or keypoints) from the frames and then describing them using the SIFT (Scale Invariant …

I commenced my PhD in bioinformatics at the Australian National University about a month ago and thought I’d share some of the tools I’ve found absolutely essential. All of these tools are free to use (some do have paid plans, however at this point I haven’t had the need to sign up for them). Evernote + …

This tutorial is a brief overview of what you can achieve using the Python BioPython module. Although I’m hoping to write up some more articles on this site for beginners when time permits, this post will assume that you have experience programming in Python and have a bit of an understanding of basic biological concepts …

Pyral (Python + Viral) was the name of a project I worked on in Dr Joanne Macdonald’s lab between September 2012 – January 2013 (although I am still providing tech support for the code and helping manage the server to this date). Throughout this time I wrote a lot of Perl and Python code to run …