I am sharing a one-minute video, I made during my PhD studies explaining how unsupervised learning can be used to learn about a sample of microbes. The objective of this video was to explain a chapter of my thesis with many biological and technical terms with zero jargon in one minute! https://youtu.be/gDcYwUDbEkU
As the global outbreak of COVID-19 lead to the closure of the state universities on 13th of March 2020 and subsequently to a lock down across the country, we at the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka had to move our teaching and learning sessions online. One of the widely used tools for this is the Zoom ...
Google classroom is a user-friendly easy-to-learn tool for classroom management. With my experience with Google Classroom with a class of 420 Engineering undergraduate students and at a couple of small classes, I am unable to recommend it as a complete alternative to a fully-pledged learning management system (LMS) like Moodle. I have encountered a couple of glitches with Google Classroom ...
On 28th of November, Nugagolla Central college had their first ‘Kala Ulela’ at the school, I am so glad that we could join them with presents. These presents were from a group of us from 2007 class of Girls’ High School, Kandy. I felt honoured to have the opportunity to share a few words with the college students at the ...
Seth Madura located close to Galmaduwa temple, Kundasale is a home for 17 children with special needs. A bunch of flowers seeking sunlight to shine they are.. On November 9th 2019 evening Seth Madura had visitors and they all had a nice evening together. With the effort of the children and the staff the place is well maintained and they ...
While I was a graduate student at the University of Melbourne, Australia I had the idea of sharing books from Melbourne to Sri Lanka, from ones who are no longer reading (a book) to ones who are in need of reading (the same). I shared this idea within my circle and a couple of people were happy to contribute. Making ...
It is essential for a software engineer to develop the ability to think (and communicate) in terms of design patterns. The fundamentals of design patterns can be explained based on GRASP : General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns (or Principles). A set of slides presented by me to a group of software engineers (including interns) summarising GRASP is here. They are ...
I was soo glad to be in Adeleide this November to attend the Australasian Genomics Technologies Association. I am also thrilled to have received two awards at the conference: AGTA Travel award and AGTA Best Poster award. The conference this year was filled with informative talks and discussions. It also had the participation of researchers working in molecular biology, ...
Combined application of single cell genomics and meteagnomics is identified to be beneficial in improving genome assemblies of uncultivable bacteria [1]. Most of the metagenomic binning methods are hindered by the low abundance of species and have low performances in discriminating sequences of multiple strains [2]. Single cell genomics may aid in overcoming mentioned limitations. Recent trends in metagenomic sequence ...
Grace Hopper Celebration Being a pioneer in the computing field which is regarded to be male-dominant is challenging for many women. Despite the social-economical challenges, some walk in heels, let their skills shine and serve their communities as best as they can. The history has being made and our lives have been shaped for the better by such women. Among ...
Fix extracted from the discussion at https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207006938-RStudio-freezes-when-saving-or-loading I must have messed around too much with RStudio Version 1.0.x in Ubuntu 15.04 , that all of a sudden it started being frozen whenver I try to load a script, by File-> Open or Ctrl+O. However, I could still open them through the file manager or by double clicking on the file name ...
Up above burning under the sun Palmyra wanted to be heard of all its beautiful rhythms.. So was waiting the Araliya for a day for its fragrance to spread and send the message of love.
Fix extracted from the discussion at https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207006938-RStudio-freezes-when-saving-or-loading I must have messed around too much with RStudio Version 1.0.x in Ubuntu 15.04 , that all of a sudden it started being frozen whenver I try to load a script, by File-> Open or Ctrl+O. However, I could still open them through the file manager or by double clicking on the file name ...
kallisto is a tool to quantify transcript abundances from RNA-Seq data. kallisto is available from bioconda. (https://anaconda.org/bioconda/kallisto) and can be installed by, conda install -c bioconda kallisto You need to have conda, the package manager which comes with Anaconda, a programming environment for python and R. If you have Anaconda installed, you may still get an error when executing above ...
Prague is a city where time seems to have stood still and being in Prague for 6 days was one of the most memorable events of my life so far. Prague has a lot to offer for a visitor: the beautiful old town with a history dating back to 900, mesmerizing statues around the city, both in old and new ...
Attending the ISMB/ECCB 2017 conference, which was held with full of action at the beautiful city, Prague, Czech Republic was an unforgettable experience. I was there to present an abstract on my work in methods for estimating species diversity from data at the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) student council symposium. ISMB/ECCB 2017 is my first time at an ...
