If you're doing any kind of scientific computing and not using version control, you're doing it wrong. The git version control system and GitHub, a web-based service for hosting and collaborating on git-controlled projects, have both become wildly popu...
I archived and anlayzed all Tweets with the hashtag #ASHG2013 using my previously mentioned code.Number of Tweets by date shows Wednesday was the most Tweeted day:The top used hashtags other than #ASHG2013:The most prolific users:And what Twitter analy...
Much of the work that bioinformaticians do is munging and wrangling around massive amounts of text. While there are some "standardized" file formats (FASTQ, SAM, VCF, etc.) and some tools for manipulating them (fastx toolkit, samtools, vcftools, etc.),...
We are constantly crunching through large amounts of data and designing unique and innovative ways to process large datasets on a single node and use distributed computing only when single node computing becomes time consuming and less effici...
Lately I had to write a seminar paper for a class and I decided to overdo it.But let's start at the very beginning. Here is my evolution of how I used to write stuff and how I got from this:to that:School: OpenOffice - I guess everyone has some&nb...
