Computational biology and genomics
Lincoln Stein has written a bunch of modules to deal with SAM/BAM files. Check out the CPAN module. If you are having trouble installing Bio::DB::Sam, you may have to recompile SAMTools with the following command: To install the Perl module on a machine where you don’t have root access, follow these instructions. Using this module,…
Foreach item in the array, start a fork. $pid returns 0 if it is the child process. This way you can spawn 4 child processes from one parent. This page explains it all and the code shown below is an adaptation of code shown from the link. I just added code to show the current…
My modification of code which is originally available here. Probably easier to understand the original code. I altered the code so that I could use an anonymous 2d array and with strictures, so that I could plug it into my own code. Comments are included in the code below to assist use.