This post is meant to act as an index of the posts and resources which formed the basis of my “biological” understanding. DISCLAIMER: My posts here are more or less only a compilation summarising what I learned from various resources (also listed in this post and also cited in specific posts). More often than not,…
Month: August 2019
Import Bio.Basics.GroundRules
This post is meant to lay some ground rules by describing some preliminary concepts that most of us might have learned in high school. Murphy’s law Let us not forget that the nature had several billion years to play with “Life and its various forms”. As a result, we see that multiple disparate ways of…
Import Bio.Basics.Genome
In this post, I am just re-publishing a part of my PhD thesis that kind of summarises, in extremely simplistic terms, the “genome” part that was sufficient for me, a CS type of person, to get started with the algorithms in bioinformatics. DNA, RNA, and Protein Sequences: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) is a biomolecule carrying the…