🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain
Image credit: UnsplashCreate a personal knowledge base and share your knowledge with your peers.
Hugo Blox web framework empowers you with one of the most flexible note-taking capabilities out there.
Create a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Use it as your second brain, either publicly sharing your knowledge with your peers via your website, or via a private GitHub repository and password-protected site just for yourself.
Mindmaps
Hugo Blox supports a Markdown extension for mindmaps.
With this open format, can even edit your mindmaps in other popular tools such as Obsidian.
Simply insert a Markdown code block labelled as markmap and optionally set the height of the mindmap as shown in the example below.
Mindmaps can be created by simply writing the items as a Markdown list within the markmap code block, indenting each item to create as many sub-levels as you need:
```markmap {height="200px"}
- Hugo Modules
- Hugo Blox
- netlify
- netlify-cms
- slides
```
renders as
- Hugo Modules - Hugo Blox - netlify - netlify-cms - slides
Anh here’s a more advanced mindmap with formatting, code blocks, and math:
```markmap
- Mindmaps
- Links
- [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/)
- [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/kit)
- Features
- Markdown formatting
- **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
- multiline
text
- `inline code`
- Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$
```
renders as
- Mindmaps
- Links
- [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/)
- [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/kit)
- Features
- Markdown formatting
- **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
- multiline
text
- `inline code`
- Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$Highlighting
Highlight important text with mark:
<mark>Highlighted text</mark>
Callouts
Use callouts (aka asides, hints, or alerts) to draw attention to notes, tips, and warnings.
Use the > [!NOTE] syntax to create a callout.
> [!NOTE]
> A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
renders as
A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
Or use the warning callout type so your readers don’t miss critical details:
A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
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I am a Bioinformatician and Computational Biologist with a Ph.D. from UC Riverside, specializing at the intersection of evolutionary biology, large-scale genomics, and high-performance software engineering.
My research leverages computational algorithms and statistical methods to investigate genome evolution, structural variation, and microbial diversity across comparative genomics and metagenomics datasets. In parallel, I develop and apply machine learning and deep learning models to predict regulatory features and analyze complex epigenomic patterns. I am passionate about engineering open-source bioinformatics software and automated workflows that scale seamlessly from local workstations to high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.
Having started my career at the bench in molecular biology before transitioning to computational research, I design software with a practical understanding of both the underlying biology and the data it produces.