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edX Medicinal Chemistry - Chapter Three on protein structures
Chapter three focuses on protein structures. From amino acids, via primary, secondary, and tertiary structure, up to quaternary structure and X-ray crystallography, our understanding of proteins’ structures is underlying our ability to develop potent drugs.
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edX Medicinal Chemistry - Chapter Two on the drug discovery process
Chapter two gives an overview on the whole drug discovery process, from basic approaches of drug discovery to marketing.
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A crash course to start state-of-the-art NLP in 2018
Recently I stumbled via HackerNews upon a good article introducing how to perform state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) analysis, featuring real-world examples.
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Zürich Life Science Day 2018: presentation and impressions
Zürich Life Science Day is a one-day event organised by the Life Science Zurich Young Scientist Network, mostly students from ETH and Univeristy of Zürich, that aims at introducing career opportunities to students and young professionals in life science. Beyond booths and stands by academic institutes and companies, career opportunities in both academics and industry are presented by speakers with years of first-hand experience in respective functions and positions.
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Develop R packages with Rcpp and RStudio
Recently, I updated the ribiosMath package. The aim was to increase the efficiency of several commonly used computational procedures (Kappa’s statistic, cosine similarity, etc.) by implementing them in C++.