A gentle introduction to stemming — In linguistics (study of language and its structure), a stem is part of a word, that is common to all of its inflected variants. CONNECT CONNECTED CONNECTION CONNECTING The above words are inflected variants of CONNECT. Hence, CONNECT is a stem. …

Publishing Python packages related to bioinformatics on Bioconda — Have you had trouble installing packages and running a gazillion commands to install dependencies? If you are lucky (which most of the time you won’t be), you will end up installing the package without having any dependency issues or version conflicts. Working in interdisciplinary sciences has made me aware of…

Strategies and tools for evaluating metagenomic binning results — Natural environments such as lake water, soil and niches of the human body (gut, skin, etc.) are home to trillions of microbes. These microscopic communities are complex and diverse, and we can learn a lot about their effects by studying their composition and interactions. If you have come across my…

Poetry Prompt: Greeting Cards — As I make greeting cards For my love of cardmaking and creativity I collect random leftover stuff When I saw the notification on Medium that Rochelle Silva has tagged me in her poem Impossible to Throw Away, I felt so happy to be reminded of how I have been making…

A simple introduction to matching in bipartite graphs with Python code examples — Graph matching can be applied to solve different problems including scheduling, designing flow networks and modelling bonds in chemistry. In this article, I will give a basic introduction to bipartite graphs and graph matching, along with code examples using the python library NetworkX. Before moving to the nitty-gritty details of…

What you must know about antibiotic resistance — Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria develop resistance towards the medicines that are designed to destroy them. The bacteria will not respond to medicine and continue to grow, leading to severe complications and even death. This has led to serious implications, especially in people with chronic illnesses as we become unable…

5 things I learned while writing my first article for a top journal — If you are into research like I am, you may know that getting your work published in a top journal is a huge achievement and you can gain more reach to your work. I was able to publish my first piece of work in my PhD in a top journal…

A poem at the end of a day — End of a day Is marked along As a bright ray With a silent song Red as a beet Shining in fury Let out the heat Without a jury As the sun sinks Into the ocean As the eye blinks It’s in motion Giving the way For the long night End of…

A sight from under the sea — Blue as the sky Filled with might As waters sigh In currents of fight Bubbles and speckles Splashing on waves Nubbles and freckles Crashing on caves Home for the world Of the aquatic living All being whirled In the wail of reliving The beauty in blue She covers the world As they…