Computational biology and genomics
Updated: 2013 November 28th The sequence composition or the nucleotide composition at transcriptional starting sites (TSSs) of mRNAs are biased, i.e. certain nucleotides are preferred. Here I examine the sequence composition at the TSS of the NCBI Reference Sequence Database also known as RefSeq and use random forests to see if it’s possible to train…
Time to get another concept under my belt, combinations and permutations. While I’m at it, I will examine combinations and permutations in R. As you may recall from school, a combination does not take into account the order, whereas a permutation does. Using the example from my favourite website as of late, mathsisfun.com: A fruit…
Disclaimer (2015 August 5th): as pointed out in this comment thread below, this post created a density plot rather than a coverage plot. I have written a new post that uses BEDTools to calculate the coverage and R to produce an actual coverage plot. I’ve recently discovered GitHub Gist, so for this post I’m going…
Git is a distributed version control and source code management (SCM) system with an emphasis on speed. What’s version control? Version control is a system that records changes to a file or a set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later. Here’s an example: check out this tweet and the…
All credit goes to this post, so be sure to check it out! I’m just simply following some of the tips from that post on handling big data in R. For this post, I will use a file that has 17,868,785 rows and 158 columns, which is quite big. Here’s the size of this file:
Calculus in Latin means pebble or small stone, such that we are working with small pieces. There are two main ideas in calculus, the first being differentiation or finding a derivative (finding a slope, which would equal the rate) and the second being integration, which is the joining (or integration) of the small pieces together…