Biology is the science of life, which is why it is often given the name life science. Biology is the field of science that deals with how living organisms
Biosciences Background
Some important background information about biosciences to help you understand other writings here, if you are not already familiar with them.
About Biological Macromolecules - Biological systems are dependent on the function of biological macromolecules, which are molecules which have chemical reactions in living organisms.
About Enzymes - Enzymes are biological catalysts made from proteins that make reactions occur faster than they would otherwise.
About Genetics - Genetics is the science that underpins how the information needed to construct an organism is stored in a sequence of DNA, and how the organism reads that DNA to retrieve those instructions.
Articles About Biology
Some writing by myself about various aspects of biological sciences.
Clinical Coding - What is clinical coding? And how is it used in healthcare?
Clinical Genetics and Personalised Medicine - How clinical genetics can aid in the deployment of personalised medicine.
Genetic Data Sharing - How sharing genetics data helps with genetic medicine.
Genetic Sequencing Methodologies - Different technologies that are used to sequence genes.
bCIPA Tools
Tools for the bCIPA leucine zipper prediction algorithm which I used during by PhD and post doctoral work in the Mason lab.
bCIPA Interactome Screener - Predict the strength of all interactions between leucine zipper domains using the bCIPA algorithm.
bCIPA Set Vs Set Screener - Screen the interactions of one set of leucine zipper sequences against another using the bCIPA algorithm.
bCIPA Set Vs Target Screener - Screen the interactions of one set of leucine zipper sequences against a single target sequence using the bCIPA algorithm.
bCIPA Tools at University of Bath - bCIPA multi sequence tools hosted at University of Bath (opens in new window).
General Tools
Some general tools that are useful for biologists which I have written, particularly biochemists and geneticists.
Hardy Weinburg Calculator - Calculate the frequency of phenotypes in a population based on allele frequency according to the Hardy-Weinburg equilibrium.
Receiver Operator Characteristic Calculator - Use this form to calculate receiver operator characteristics (ROCs), which will tell you about the analytical performance of a binary classifier.
Degenerate Codon Finder - Find degenerate codons for generating peptide libraries in with specified amino acid resides.
Library Generator - Generate all sequences in a specified peptide library.