Humanity was for centuries under the spell of smallpox, a deadly disease caused by a virus named variola . Smallpox was eradicated in...

THE GREAT SICKNESS Centuries ago, a deadly epidemic swept through Mesoamerica. Those who lived through it, called this malady cocoliztli...

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Artificial neural networks —also known as deep learning networks—are a type of machine learning algorithm,...

The grammar and sentence construction rules in scientific writing are well-defined and accept little or no variation. It is therefore...

This blogpost is about the first two components in a scientific research article ( paper ) — the title and abstract . Below I define...

This blogpost is a postscript  to the previous one — “THE PEPTIDE-SPECTRUM MATCH” — ,  in which I wrote about the peptide-spectrum match...

In my previous blogpost “PROTEOMICS SEARCH ENGINES”   I wrote about the current state-of-the-art of the algorithms used to analyze...

This blog post is a high-level introduction to what a search engine is, in mass spectrometry-based proteomics (MS-proteomics). For those...

But mass spectrometry-based proteomics (MS-proteomics), as we know it, was not born in 1995, which is when the term proteome first...