Previously, I posted about using Growl in combination with Prowl to get remote notifications of experiment progress on both a Mac and iPhone. Later that day, I started thinking about some improvements to the script after a brief Twitter conversation with Seth Brown.¹

The script depends on the remote …

In addition to covering my use of python in research, one of my goals for this blog is to share ways I use various other computational tools to automate basic research tasks. Such an opportunity arose this week with the onset of hardware issues causing one of our laboratory's NMR …

This IPython notebook builds on the previous blog post which described how to simulate and plot the result of a shaped pulse on magnetization in an NMR experiment. For the purpose of teaching¹, it can also be useful to visualize the effect of this pulse on the magnetization at …

Bandwidth-selective excitation in NMR is commonly accomplished through the use of shaped pulses. These pulses require careful calibration to ensure power levels and pulse lengths are correctly determined for optimal excitation of only the desired frequency range. Simulating the shaped pulse over a range of frequencies is one way of …

Many have asked about my blog design and how I incorporate IPython notebooks, such as the one used in the previous post. I merely glued all the pieces together for this setup, so to give credit where it is due and to provide a documented how-to for my future self …