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PhD student | Institute of Bioinformatics | University of Georgia

🏛 Research

What I’ve been donig all day recently ...

January 21, 2021 · 2 min · Chen Hsieh

🏔 Projects

Teaching, side quests, writings, and outreaches ...

January 21, 2021 · 3 min · Chen Hsieh

🛣 Synergistic activities

Experiences beside academia that shape the way I think ...

January 21, 2021 · 1 min · Chen Hsieh

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January 21, 2021 · 1 min · Chen Hsieh

[ cloud storage alternatives ] Decentralized file storage based on IPFS with Pinata

IPFS stands for InterPlanetary File System. Every user can have a copy or a portion of the file system making the system resilient. As long as somebody still pins a certain file, the file would not disappear from the system. Due to its decentralized property, IPFS was used to host the website for the Catalan independence referendum of 2017 to make it impossible for the Spain government to shut it down....

December 5, 2021 · 2 min · Chen Hsieh

HISAT 2

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October 18, 2021 · 0 min · Chen Hsieh

Sail through Sapelo2

If you are a first-time user, you can read through this guide from the beginning. However, if you already have your own workflow, you might want to jump to the tips section to check if there are some more little things you can do to make your workflow more efficient. SSH client: handy tool makes a handyman First thing first, choose a suitable SSH client. Of course, you can use terminal/power-shell to ssh into the cluster, but some GUI might make things easier....

October 18, 2021 · 6 min · Chen Hsieh

Using AlphaFold at UGA

At UGA you can run AlphaFold on two platforms, GACRC and COLAB. The code on GACRC might be closer to the original one released by Deepmind. The COLAB one made the ‘sequence alignment’ step quicker with potentially reduced accuracy. The good news is that the results from both of them look the same to my eyes. After getting the results, just use software like PyMol to open the .pdb file to visualize the 3D model....

October 9, 2021 · 2 min · Chen Hsieh

my leetcode journey

My frustration and ugly codes Being a bioinformatic student, I have no problem using other people’s software and plug in required data. I can also interpret data correctly for most of the cases. However, I am always nervous about not having a really solid training in quantitative skills. This is making me replaceble. It is easy to teach a software engineer biology knowledge but it is far more harder to...

July 1, 2021 · 9 min · Chen Hsieh
from Aeon Flux

[PhD Journey] 2021 Q1

PhD 是一趟主動學習的旅程,對我來說除了獲取知識以外,情勢視讀與決策能力更是我希望能成長的方向,過程中的每件小事細品都有啟示 January:在前...

April 1, 2021 · 5 min · Chen Hsieh

How I get an idea of a new research topic

It’s really easy to get side-projects as a bioinformatic student. Although it is exciting to have a side-project to work on for the possibility of co-authorship or any possible reward, it is more important to be reallistic on the time commitment. Increasing the efficiency of the learning process is the topic I am currently focusing on. Especially when dabbling into a new realm of research topic, I always ended up with a lot of browser tabs without really getting the idea....

March 7, 2021 · 4 min · Chen Hsieh

[ VIDEO ] Build a Docker container image and deploy in 10 minutes - video tutorial

Docker is almost a standard for publishing any new software or package. There is a platform called PlantIT that can help you deploy any service in the container image. Let’s learn how to put a deep learning based plant phenotyping package into container and deploy it to PlantIT. Transcript: Welcome to the video. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to build a container for a deep learning model and run it on PlantIT in less than 10 minutes....

February 5, 2021 · 6 min · Chen Hsieh

知識筆記的網路、言論審查的網路

過完在美國讀博班的第一學期,冬季假期間除了開始收集研究的資料與確立研究方向以外,因為美國瘋狂的選舉結果餘韻,思考了一些關於知識、筆記、與言論...

January 27, 2021 · 4 min · Chen Hsieh