Computational biology and genomics
Last updated: 2023/07/28 I recently learned about code snippets in RStudio (ignore the strikethrough). As the name suggests, they are snippets of code that you can quickly insert into your source code in the source pane of RStudio. There are two ways to add code snippets: Click on the following: Tools -> Global Options ->…
I use tidyverse packages a lot and most of the times I prefer them over base R functions, especially when it comes to plotting. However, sometimes I want to write an R script with no dependencies. This is typically referred to as using base R, i.e. using only functions that come with R. Theoretically this…
I recently learned of the WTFPL licence and was reading the FAQ (link no longer works) to learn a bit more about it. I came to the "But profanity is offensive!" section and while reading it it made me reflect about the things that really matter to me in life. The last few years have…
I just finished reading "Using prototyping to choose a bioinformatics workflow management system", which I summarised on Mastodon as follows: Enjoyed reading "Using prototyping to choose a #bioinformatics workflow management system". Paper describes authors’ 10 day experience searching and implementing a workflow. Summary: Need to decide which tool to use? Shortlist a list of potentially…
A lot of the well known bioinformatics blogs are no longer maintained. I recently came across a blog post that talked about blogging and how it was possible to actively maintain a blog for over 10 years. I discovered the blog when I learned of the book Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R, which also…
Last updated: 2025/04/26 Vim is a text editor that is renowned for having a steep learning curve. People like to illustrate its difficulty by pointing out that Vim is so unfriendly to new users that they do not even know how to quit the program! I learned Vim (and Perl) because that was what my…