Computational biology and genomics
At the start of this year I created a Twitter account that automatically tweets out papers related to transcriptomes, i.e. a Twitter literature bot. This idea isn’t new and there are over 200 Twitter literature bots. However, I wrote my Twitter bot using R (and using the RISmed package to search PubMed for papers) and…
The R Graphics Cookbook is an awesome book; it’s so awesome that I bought the ebook after I bought the hardcopy because one copy of it wasn’t enough. I haven’t read the book in its entirety yet, but I thought I’ll share with you some of the recipes in Chapter 13, which illustrates how to…
I started this blog on the 1st of October in 2010 and last year I decided to write an anniversary post to recap four years of blogging. I had decided to write another anniversary post this year, however, I am a day late; this is not without good reason! I have, as of the 28th…