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from-bio-to-tech-talk

A talk on my switch from Biotechnology to Software development given at the UCC Re-inventing presentations group on Nov 28, 2014.

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from bio to tech

my journey so far

 

 

Vimalkumar Velayudhan

2vkvn.com

2001 M.Sc. Biotechnology

2007 onwards Software Developer

How did this happen?

I like to tinker!

 

Source: http://pixabay.com/en/radio-playing-antenna-audio-sound-311676

M.Sc. thesis

Standardization and Assay of DNA polymerase activity from the thermophilic fungus Thermomyces lanuginosus.

2001

Introduction toComputers

Created my firstWebsite

 

Yatheesh Kumar

 

sent me free linux cd's

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tux-Shirt.svg

The idea of getting all that software for free was exciting!

Then, I knew more aboutOpen Source

Started to build things - VLinux

 

Learnt to program

PERL Python PHP HTML CSS JavaScript

Cork, 2007

Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:University-College-Cork-Panorama-2012.JPG

Building more things - ITQuery

 

O’Farrell B, Haase JK, Velayudhan V, Murphy RA, Achtman M (2012) Transforming Microbial Genotyping: A Robotic Pipeline for Genotyping Bacterial Strains. PLoS ONE 7(10): e48022. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048022

Building more things - scienceformat

 

Building more things - Android Apps

 

The free & open source software I use and recommend

Linux for the OS

 

Try Ubuntu http://ubuntu.comThere are other options. Look around!

 

i can help you install it!

Source of the clippy image: http://titanaura.deviantart.com/art/Clippy-is-an-Asshole-AutoCorrect-278924051

Firefox for web browsing

 

 

http://www.mozilla.org/firefox Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mozilla_Firefox_logo_2013.svg

LibreOffice for documents & spreadsheets

 

 

http://www.libreoffice.org Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#mediaviewer/File:LibreOffice_Logo_Flat.svg

Zotero as the reference manager

 

 

http://www.zotero.org/ Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zotero_logo.png

GIMP & Inkscape for image editing and illustration

 

 

http://www.gimp.org | http://www.inkscape.org

LyX for preparing thesis or reports

 

 

http://www.lyx.org

Blender for video editing

Remember!

No software is perfect.

http://xkcd.com/1197/

Thanks!

Website & Blog: 2vkvn.com