Computational biology and genomics
Updated 2022 January 20th. As pointed out by Colin, converting a BAM file to CRAM is simply one command: Of note is that the reference file used to produce the BAM file is required and is used as an argument for the -T option. As for why we should convert from BAM to CRAM, the…
Updated 2014 September 19th to include a method that does not require sorting. The h-index is an index that is calculated by measuring the number of articles, say $$n$$, that has at least $$n$$ citations. If you published 10 articles, and each of them had four citations, your h-index would be four, since there are…
Updated 2014 September 19th to compare different transpose tools I wrote a simple transpose tool, using Perl, for taking in tabular data and outputting a transposed version of the data. The primary motivation for writing this was because when viewing files with a lot of columns on the command-line, it becomes hard to match the…