Map, join, and pivot in R

In this post, I will describe a series of data processing steps in R that I often perform that involves the map_df, inner_join, and pivot_longer functions from the purrr, dplyr, and tidyr packages, respectively. They are all part of the tidyverse, so to follow this post, please install the tidyverse package. install.packages("tidyverse") library(tidyverse) The typical…

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Mapping full-length mRNA sequences

I have used BLAT to align full-length mRNA sequences a long time ago. Since BLAT has been out for over 20 years, I was wondering what modern day alignment tool I could use as a replacement. Minimap2 came to mind and in this post I use it to map some known transcript sequences to the…

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