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YouTube: Video of Unix Tips and Tricks
A few summers ago, I was teaching a programming course to high school students with the Harlem Children Society (written up by WNYC in this article). Since Unix was so foundational to the lessons that...
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Plotting on Chromosome Ideograms
When I was still wet behind the ears, I wanted to infer the phylogeny (or pattern of evolutionary relatedness) of great apes at multiple loci throughout the genome. I ended up analyzing about 27...
View ArticleMakefiles to Control Bioinformatic Pipelines
I have a big sprawling project that until recently consisted of a folder of jumbled scripts. Previous Me knew exactly how everything worked and what depended on what and Current Me had a tenuous idea...
View ArticleMigrating an SVN Repository to Google Code
Last month, I started working on a bioinformatic pipeline for the analysis of RAD-seq data. It’s nothing terribly exciting, only other people’s programs patched together, but it marked my first use of...
View ArticleLate Night Coding
A collaborator and I are wrapping up this massive coding project on protein-protein interactions, which is a bit out of the area of expertise of this monkey scientist. I’m striving to make the code as...
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