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Bacteria Breaking Antibiotic Environments

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The video below by researchers at the Harvard Medical School and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology shows bacteria break zones of ever increasing concentrations of antibiotics hence demonstrates how bacteria becomes “impervious to drugs”. They are able to

In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to drugs. [2]

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Best Practices for Scientific Computing

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A summary of a very interesting paper on “Best Practices for Scientific Computing” I read a year ago.

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I reproduce here below principles from the amazing paper Best Practices for Scientific Computing, published on 2012 by a group of US and UK professors. The main purpose of the paper is to “teach”  good programming habits shared from professional developers to people  that weren’t born developer, and became developers just for professional purposes.

Scientists spend an increasing amount of time building and using software. However, most scientists are never taught how to do this efficiently

Best Practices for Scientific Computing

  1. Write programs for people, not computers.

    1. a program should not require its readers to hold more than a handful of facts in memory at once
    2. names should be consistent, distinctive and meaningful
    3. code style and formatting should be consistent
    4. all aspects of software development should be broken down into tasks roughly an hour long

  2. Automate repetitive tasks.

    1. rely on the computer to repeat tasks
    2. save recent commands in…

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