Lately, there’s been quite a few articles (such as here and here) discussing the use of the university lecture and its perceived shortcomings. The question is asked: is the lecture an unengaging relic from before the digital age? Are lectures really the best way to learn? I attended many lectures throughout my undergraduate studies, and have also tried …

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 + …

Line two of the zen of Python reads “explicit is better than implicit” and until relatively recently I never truly appreciated the wisdom of those words. My change of heart stems from a series of Python scripts, where a large portion of my code dealt with automating and retrieving the results of a BLAST search using the …