10 hints on parsing
A quick note for bioinformaticians in the audience: Neil Saunders has an excellent post on parsing (i.e. processing a file to retrieve specific sections of interest). Neil’s hints are a useful...
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Good advice for 11th graders…
xkcd has some good advice for high-schoolers: That goes doubly for anyone even vaguely interested in a career in biology, and particularly genetics – right now, even some basic scripting experience...
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Squeezing the genome: how to shrink your whole-genome sequence to 4 MB
A new paper in Bioinformatics describes an efficient compression algorithm that allows an individual’s complete genome sequence to be compressed down to a vanishingly small amount of data – just 4...
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Why biology students should learn how to program
John Hawks recounts a recent conversation about bioinformatics: I was talking with a scientist last week who is in charge of a massive dataset. He told me he had heard complaints from many of his...
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