My Opinion On Blogging

I really think Blogging is not for me. I'm not the type of people who really shares my view. But that does not mean I'm selfish. I'm more of a listener. I tend to be very quiet and reserved, maybe shy sometimes.

Until now, I've have not mastered the way how to blog. I've still got lots of learning to do. Who knows, maybe the more I learn, the more i might enjoy it. That was the case for Biology.

But I like sharing pictures, though.

XML

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C and several other related specifications; all are fee-free open standards.(Source, wikipedia). It is more concerned on how data is stored on the internet rather how it is displayed (html). The code is recognized by many softwares

Basically, XML is very similar to HTML in many similar ways. They have open and close tags and so on. But in XML, the tags are defined by the user and the always have to be closed as opposed to HTML. The first line will always start with (xml version="") and the tags happen to be case sensitive.

For me, XML is not that tough as the concept is very similar to HTML, a language I learned before. Software like notepad can be used to make this file.

Below is an example of XML,

<A HREF="resumepage.html">
(?xml version="1.0"?)

    Tove
    Jani
    Reminder
    Don't forget me this weekend!


</A>

SMILES

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) is a code of molecular structures using short ASCII strings (Computer Language). This idea was developed by Arthur Weininger and David Weininger in the late 1980s.

An example, OC[C@@H](O1)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@@H](O)1
That is the code for glucose. The shape is a chair shaped cyclohexane with substituents.

To try out smiles, we built the molecular structure in this program called chem sketch and used the software to generate the SMILES code. The concept of naming the molecular structures using takes time to learn. Below are some of my SMILES work.

Excel

These are my excel pictures again. Just to make it look better.

Protein Data Bank

Today, i used this program called raswin to view pictures from the protein data bank. Protein data bank is basically a repository for 3D molecular structures such as proteins and nucleic acids.
We used Raswin to get a 360' view of the molecular structure and the view of the molecule in many different shapes and colours. Here are some of the molecules I drew.

Crystal structure of a simplified BPTI containing 20 alanines:





ATPase:

Chem Sketch

Recently, I was using this program called Chem Sketch, it was okay. At least it was quite easy to comprehend this software because this topic is related to what I'm actually studying, unlike Maple. We made molecular structures, pictures of DNA, pictures of fatty acids, graphs and many more. Here below are some of my work from Chem Sketch.

A few days ago at KOS1110 class, i just started to learn how to use Microsoft Excel. I learned how to input data and make a scatter plot. The instructions were made for Excel 2003, but I somehow managed to find a way through by playing around with the menus. Overall, it's not that hard to learn, unlike maple. But this is still the beginning. Some of my samples can be seen at the very bottom at the page, along with my gadgets.