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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

      —— George Bernard Shaw

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many phenomena, 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

      —— Pareto_principle

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andLinux -- A coLinux based ubuntu distribution for Windows, this is a great system to improve your working efficiency.

Bioinformatics Related

Yufeng's Excel Tips
Updated PDBList.py of Biopython 1.43

Note: since Aug. 1, 2007, PDB files are updated on wwpdb first. This outdates the PDBList.py in Biopython 1.43. This file updated relative commands and corrected a few bugs.

Biochemistry

Crystallography

Scripts to convert diffraction pattern .osc files to jpeg image files.
- Bash version, Bash version is more updated compared to csh version.

Note: A newly updated version of the script will generate the following sample picture provided a plain text annotation file. The script is available on request by email to yufeng.tong (at) gmail.com. (20070523)

Csh version
Sample composite image: $composite diffraction images$