Franziska Ahrend

Franziska's Bioinformatics Diary


Lunch with Victor Ambros: A Core Memory

A personal reflection on meeting Victor Ambros – Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of microRNAs – and why the experience strengthened my belief in the value of curiosity-driven science.

Cursor for R series (Part 2): Running R in Jupyter Notebooks with Cursor

Get your R code working inside Jupyter Notebooks — all inside Cursor. Part 2 of the Cursor for R series and shows how to install and use IRkernel, manage kernels, and fix common problems.

Running R in Cursor (Part 1): Setting Up Cursor for R for a Smarter Coding Experience

Thinking about using Cursor for R instead of RStudio? Here's a simple guide to get started-and a first step toward running R inside Jupyter Notebooks with Cursor!

Advancing Biological Research Through Transparent ML/AI Solutions: A Codeathon Experience

Joining a group of talented individuals, I had the opportunity to be part of the NCBI Codeathon, where we used machine learning and AI to tackle key challenges in biological research.

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Different approaches for finding Motifs in DNA sequences with Python

My ideas on how to find a motif in a DNA sequence.
Solved: Naive and Knuth-Morris-Pratt Approach.
Next up: Rabin-Carp, Bozer-Moore.

Amino acid / Aminosäuren Cheat Sheet

Sharing my cheat sheet for our 20 amino acids. First in German, later in English.
German: Aminosäuren sind die Grundbausteine der Proteine und somit essentiell für unserer und anderer Lebewesens Überleben. Dementsprechend war es Stoff, der sich in meinem Bachelor Studium Molekulare Biologie an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität stetig wiedergefunden hat.