Tag Archives: computational biology

To Pittsburgh

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Shannon Quinn

For those not in the know–The Lady and I just completed our 12-hour journey (yes I know GMaps says 9.5, but GMaps doesn’t have checkboxes for “traveling with cat” and “include pileup on a bridge in Virginia”) from our 4.5-year … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Graduate School | Tagged athens, awesome advisor was awesome, computational biology, friends, love pittsburgh, muffin the fluffernutter, pittsburgh, probably won't get three feet of snow at a time anymore, racing, runners, running, so many lovely people | 1 Comment

A Rant on Reasonable Expectations

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

With the semester wrapping up, I feel my status as a teaching assistant for a computational modeling course compels me to address something that we’ve encountered off and on the past several months. I’ll let Condescending Wonka introduce it. He … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, lolcat, Programming, the dark side | Tagged computational anything usually involves programming, computational biology, matlab, odes, ordinary differential equations, prerequisites, Programming, python, ranting, ranting and raving, raving, requirements | 3 Comments

Friday, February 17, 2012

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

5:56am: I bloody hate when you wake up just before your alarm. I had literally just come out of a dream (of course I can’t remember what it was now, but at the time when I popped awake, I could … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Daily, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady | Tagged belgian food is teh pwn, breakfast, cats all the way down, cell and systems, computational biology, early freaking wakeup, gates hillman complex, ghc, how it should have ended is awesome, my drunk kitchen is awesome, om nom nom, outofmemoryexception is not awesome, point brugge, point brugge is literally the best restaurant in pittsburgh, racquetball, reddit, reddit blows, weightlifting | Leave a comment

Research, or tool for research?

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Shannon Quinn

Every Friday afternoon, the students in our Ph.D. program are given the opportunity to present their research to the other students in the program. It’s a great chance to take stock of what you’ve been doing, as well as give … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Technology | Tagged actionscript, algorithms, amino acids, basic local search alignment tool, biology, blast, computational biology, dna, flash, genbank, genome, google, im more or less trying to make my own work relevant, lolcat, network evolution, nucleic acids, pdb, protein, protein data bank, research, rna, tvnviewer, visualization, wet lab | Leave a comment

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

I’m finally back in Atlanta. The semester, oddly enough, wrapped up pretty well; still waiting on my thesis research grade to come in, but otherwise – all things considered – I can’t really mark it as anything but a success. … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Technology | Tagged amazon, astrophysics, christmahannukwanzaromadonakka, computational biology, hibernate pwnd me then i returned the favor, lolcat, once you know you newegg, phd applications, protein localization, thesis research, web applications, winter, wish lists | Leave a comment

The next step

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

It seems like I was only just applying to graduate programs in anticipation of leaving the familiar surroundings of Georgia Tech to go gallivanting off to my next academic adventure. And yet, here I am again: with my M.S. degree … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life | Tagged blogs, carnegie mellon, cdc, cognition therapeutics, computational biology, computer science, geektacular, georgia tech, Graduate School, lolcat, merrick furst, personal statement, phd, politics permeats every level of society, research, resume, robert murphy, science fair, student bloggers, why are you so awesome, why is this school so awesome, why were your awesome self and this awesome school made for each other | Leave a comment

More futuristic discussion

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

Wait for it, wait for it… Now that I have your attention, I’d like to share where I’m thinking I’ll be at this time next year. As I will be graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a master’s degree this coming … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Real Life, The Lady | Tagged academia, atm machine, bioinformatics, carnegie mellon, computational biology, cornell, georgia tech, Graduate School, i cannot describe how difficult it was to write this without wigging out about awesomeness, IBM, jobs, mit, pc computer, pin number, sgu, stargate universe, syfy | 6 Comments

10 days of summer vacation starts…now

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

After having arrived in Atlanta from Pittsburgh last Saturday night but still tied down with two to-be-completed projects, I emailed out the last write-up five minutes ago and am now OFFICIALLY on summer vacation. …for the next 10 days, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat | Tagged computational biology, extremeblue, IBM, lolcat, raleigh, shannon is finished with work and ready to ignore your demands, summer vacation | 8 Comments

You wanted nerdulance / geekery…

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

Here it is: this is what I’m studying currently for my third and final midterm in Computational Biology. This is an exploration in Hidden Markov Models. For those of you who really aren’t interested in the Wikipedia mumbo jumbo, an … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Mathematics | Tagged a priori, algorithms, backward algorithm, baum-welch, bayes rule, computational biology, emission, expectation, find the flaw: writing equations in ms word on a mac, forward algorithm, hidden markov models, is it spring break yet, likelihood, midterms, probability, statistical inference, statistics, transition, viterbi algorithm | 8 Comments

Prob(acing midterm | ate pizza)

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

I can’t exactly say that “ate pizza” is an attribute of sufficient significance for use in determining the probability of acing the machine learning midterm, but even if it was, let’s just say that 2/3 of a large pepperoni pizza … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Politics | Tagged bayes nets, bayesian networks, computational biology, conditional probability, conservative != republican, logistic regression, machine learning, midterms, pepperoni, pizza, prob(acing midterm) < 0, probability, rush limbaugh, toothpicks | Leave a comment

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