Increasing emphasis on data and quantitative methods in the biomedical sciences is making biological research more computational. Collecting, curating, processing, and analysing large genomic and imaging data sets poses major computational challenges, as ... (more…)

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models for AI art generation from first principles in Julia. This is part 1 of a 3 part series on these models. (more…)

I've been more serious about learning Rust recently, after dragging on with passive learning for a while. My first real programming language was Julia, and I know other Julians interested in Rust. I've written this article for those people in mind, becaus... (more…)

Introduction In October 2019, a paper was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, introducing a new language for bioinformatics called Seq. In it, the authors rightly recognize that the field of bioinformatics is in need of a high-pe... (more…)

Julia has been around since 2012 and after more than six years of development, its 1.0 version has been finally released. This is a major milestone and one that has inspired me to write a new blogpost... (more…)