Blogspot - asserttrue.blogspot.com - blogorrhea
General Information:
Latest News:
How to Customize a ZunZun SVG Graph 10 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Being able to create high-quality graphs of data (for free) at ZunZun.com is great, but to me, what really makes ZunZun a great service is the fact that it will give you a graph in SVG format. SVG is ...
More ZunZun Graphs and Biohacking 9 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
A few days ago I gave a detailed front-to-back tutorial on how to do a bit of bio-hacking. I showed how to quickly get the amino acid sequences for 25 versions of the Hsp40 (DnaJ) heat shock protein, ...
How to Add Interactivity to an SVG Graph 7 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
One of the great things about SVG (and the SVG graphs you can produce on demand at ZunZun) is that, as a web standard, it supports DOM and JavaScript, which means you can make SVG graphs interactive. ...
Making SVG Work with Blogger 6 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
If you've had problems with SVG in Blogger (or any other web pages), here are some things I've learned the Hard Way. The test image below (which you won't be able to see in Internet Exploder; upgrade ...
Fun with SVG Graphs 5 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
In my last post, I showed how you can create nice-looking graphs using the service provided by ZunZun. The graphs produced by ZunZun are pretty cool as-is, but you may find that you want to modify the...
Do-It-Yourself Bio-Hacking: A Tutorial 3 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Today I want to show you how you can do a slick bio-hacking experiment, and graph the results nicely, all in your browser, in well under 10 minutes. The following experiment will run just fine in Chro...
Crunching Codon Data in the Browser 1 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Yesterday I talked about my favorite technique of crunching data in the browser. Generally, I try to get my data in tab-delimited form and then save it in a plain old text file. I open the text file i...
Easy Data-Crunching in the Browser 31 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
When I have data-crunching to do, I like to do it in the browser. Excel gives me a headache. Teaching myself how to write Excel macros doesn't leave me with a transferable skill (a skill that can be u...
jQuery for Bioinformatics 30 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
I've been using JavaScript for almost two decades now, but somehow I've managed to avoid learning jQuery until just recently, mostly out of laziness but also because of a lingering yet torrid love-hat...
Getting Started in Desktop Bioinformatics 26 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
I've spent about four months now exploring do-it-yourself desktop bioinformatics. Overall, I'm excited by what I've been able to do and I'm optimistic about the prospects for other do-it-yourself desk...
