This is a series of blog posts about my experience undergoing the beginner level bioinformatics course on Coursera, the problems solved, and the Python Codes generated.This purpose of this blog is for me to document my experiences for my future self, and not to optimize for readability. If you’ve not…

Around 4 years ago I got some insight into the role data science of genomes could play in our future, and signed up for a coursera course called Bioinformatics for Beginners. 4 years later, I have finally started taking it seriously. …

I find the topic of genomes, and the programming involved in it fascinating. Coursera offers a reasonably good beginner level course that introduces this topic called Bioinformatics for Beginners. I had originally enrolled in this course 4 years ago, but started working on it seriously only this year. This series…

Notes from the coursera course. 2 complimentary DNA strands running in opposite directions around a circular chromosome unravel, starting at ori. They create two replication forks. These replication forks expand in both directions around the chromosome until the strands completely separate. The points at which the strands completely separate is…

This is a part of a series of blog posts written based on concepts I read in a few books — Sapiens, Glimpses of World History, Discovery of India 800,000 years ago: Humans started occasional deliberate use of fire. 300,000 years ago: Humans started regular use of domesticated fire. The…

This blog intends to be a reference of Hibernate mapping related problems and their solutions, and is not intended as an educational read. This is to prevent us from wasting time on finding solutions to the same problems again and again. If you’re using JPA annotations, you may have come…

This is a part of a series of blog posts written based on concepts I read in a few books — Sapiens, Glimpses of World History, Discovery of India The humans evolved in East Africa 2.5 million years ago, from another genus called Australopithecus (Southern Ape). …

This is a part of a series of blog posts written based on concepts I read in a few books — Sapiens, Glimpses of World History, Discovery of India In the beginning, people on the East of Indus were called the Sindhus (सिंधु), and people on the right of the…

The Double Thank-You Moment I first heard of the term the “Double Thank-You Moment” in Amit Varma’s podcast The Seen and The Unseen. The rough description is as follows, quoted from an article he wrote — When you place an order at, say, a Cafe Coffee Day, you say ‘thank you’ when you are…