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 …