Comparing Midjourney versions 3 and 4 for science themed images

Midjourney is a proprietary artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions. You interact with the Midjourney…

A bioinformatician's guide to serovars and antigenic formulae in Salmonella

In the post I will describe the basics of Salmonella serovar nomenclature. This post will act as a primer for bioinformaticians starting…

What is Mastodon?

(Skip ahead if you know how the internet works) When I was a teenager I used to moderate a phpBB web forum that my friend had set up. It…

How to use rMLST and its application to Acinetobacter

In the previous post , I describe rMLST ( Jolley et al. 2012 ) as a ready and able alternative for species without existing MLST schemes…

Downloading and installing software for the rMLST comparison

These are some notes for how to install software and fetch the data required for the rMLST comparison in Acintobacter . Setting up conda…