Introduction

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Welcome to my cryptic and personal blog! My name is Inácio, and here I intend to write about (almost) everything I like, including Chess, Heavy Metal, Python (programming language), and so on. Have good reads!

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A quick talk on "Working with Bioinformatics"

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Folks, a quick talk about working with bioinformatics. Bioinformatics job profiles is a gradient. In one extreme, there's the developers of bioinformatics tools. In the other extreme, there are the users of bioinformatics tools. In both cases you need to have a good knowledge of biology, specially of genetics and biochemistry. It's important to note that the "users" profile is mainly related to the use of webservers and desktop software. But keep in mind, it's a gradient, so there are multiple and varied mixes of these two extremes. Despite all the profiles are devoted to answer a biological question at some extent, "user" profiles will be directly involved at it, while "developer" profiles will be aimed at proposing solutions that help to solve many instances of a same problem class. Because of that, the best way (in my opinion) to start on bioinformatics and find your way is at the middle of the gradient, the so called "bioinformatics sc...
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Reproducibility with Python - Notes and tips

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 I understand reproducibility as two situations: When you (yes, you) get to run (in your (yes, your) own machine) the code produced by “someone else” and obtain the exact same results that “someone else” obtained in her/his/their machine. When “someone else” gets to run in her/his/their own machine the code produced by you (yes, you) and obtains the exact same results that you obtained in your (yes, your) machine. How can we achieve (or get closer to) reproducibility to our python code? Well, we must ensure that “someone else” will run our code using, at least, the same python version we were using as well as the same versions of the packages we were also using. How can we “help someone else” with this? I recommend using in your projects one of these two solutions: Poetry Conda (either Anaconda either miniconda ) Both work with the concept of virtual environment, a “sandbox” in which you can specify, use and “freeze” the “exact state” of package versions (and in cas...
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Learn foreign languages

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It has been about a month and a half that I have moved from my home country to another one. One of the biggest lessons I learned was: learn to speak the languagr of that country. Moving to another country brings many challenges and you inevitably get in trouble, mainly due to culture shocks. However, when you don't know the language of the country you're moving, the weight of all of this doubles, and everything gets harder. Yes, knowing English helps, but it is very far to be really useful, tough is not worthless. On average, most of the people will know English in a basic level such that communication can be made, however the number of people that knows absolutely nothing of English is way higher than you expect, and the probability of finding them is very high. That's why you definitely need to learn the language of the country you're moving to. Believe me, your mental health will thank you in a way you can't imagine.
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