I recently came across a nice tool for depicting multiple molecules called CDK Depict (thanks to Ruben for sending it to me), so I decided to explore what other web-based molecule visualization and drawing tools are available.
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Handy LaTeX syntax I Googled over the years
In an attempt to ease the transition from Word to LaTeX for some of my colleagues (*cough* Alex *cough*) this blog post covers some LaTeX tricks I use most frequently when preparing manuscripts. It’s pitched at someone who is already familiar with the basic syntax of paragraphs, figures and tables.
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Pandas is one of the most used packages for data analysis in python. The library provides functionalities that allow to perfrom complex data manipulation operations in a few lines of code. However, as the number of functions provided is huge, it is impossible to keep track of all of them. More often than we’d like to admit we end up wiriting lines and lines of code only to later on discover that the same operation can be performed with a single pandas function.
To help avoiding this problem in the future, I will run through some of my favourite pandas functions and demonstrate their use on an example data set containing information of crystal structures in the PDB.
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