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Selecting the Right Protein Modeling Program: A comparison of I-TASSER, Phyre ^2, and PredictProtein.
Non-Technical Introduction:Proteins are the building block of life and the functional downstream product of a gene. They are an integral part of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (DNA>…
Journeying into the Data Scientist’s Inferno
Programming is just implementing complex calculations, right? I naively assumed so, but when I embarked upon the data scientists’ journey, the data began to balloon; and so did the fundamental…
BLMbegonias
During the summer of 2020, protests erupted across the nation to support the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the murder of George Floyd. As people took to the streets to raise their…
Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics
I was recently able to attend the 26th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG) via zoom. The summer workshop is offered by the Department of Biostatistics at the University…
Pennycress: The weed picking up speed
A new biofuel cover crop is on the horizon for farmers in the Midwest. Field pennycress is a winter annual with extreme cold tolerance, making it an excellent candidate for a winter cover crop…
Think About It: Your Life (and Science) is Greatly Shaped by Electric Refrigeration
My great-grandfather was an iceman. My family owned a local dam and sold ice by horse and cart to my hometown for decades. This process, which many people may have only been cursorily…
A (not quite) Ode to Graduate School
I recently graduated with my PhD from the TPS program at Ohio State. I still distinctly remember the moment I got the email from TPS in early 2015 saying I’d been admitted to the program. After…
TPS student Rachel Combs-Giroir receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Second year graduate student Rachel Combs-Giroir was selected to receive a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship beginning in the fall of 2021. This prestigious fellowship will…
Telecommunication is a legitimate way to work
Written by TPS PhD candidate Zach Konkel COVID-19 has transformed the world in myriad ways. I owe empathy and respect to the people I do and don’t see affected by the disease. Perhaps in a…