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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 3 years, 7 months ago
Summary
csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. (csvkit can convert XLSX files to CSV.)
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years ago
More than once I have written my own tutorials for learning how to use the command line within the bash shell in the context of a Unix or Unix-like computer. Recently I found a very well done tutorial that, while […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
The iris dataset is perhaps one of the most famous datasets used to learn and teach statistics and now machine learning. Being curious about this dataset lead me last time to the TableConvert.com web site that I […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
This is a repost of my post on the Biochemistry department: tableconvert-com-free-tabular-data-formats-converter
Tabular formats
When I first came to Madison in 1986 as a postdoc with Biochemistry professor Paul […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
Today I found a new tool: bioawk that was written by Heng Li who also wrote samtools and bwa.
I first discovered it ont this blog: bioawk-basics (Bioinformatics Workbooks)
There is also a short tutorial on GitH […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Moving atoms
For some reason a paper copy of “Chemical and Engineering News” (November 11, 2019 – Vol 97 Issue 44) ended up in my hands, and I almost missed this fun section named: “30 years of moving atoms: How […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
I use grep very often, and I made-up and acronym that made sense to me: Get REgular ExPression
But I discovered this YouTube video that gives an accurate historical recounting of its birth and where its name […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Even though I have been using computers all my life there are still many aspects of computing that are mysterious to me, and I am sure many others…
One of my favorite quotes is “A leads to B leads to C” […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Binder 2.0
As just an “end-user” of software for data analysis it is sometimes difficult to just catch up with what’s available, and I end-up discovering new things simply browsing the web looking for something […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Recently I was testing a Docker image to run a container for Next Gen sequencing, a way to test an existing “pipeline” on the first published study of the effect of the Zika virus. […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago
Downsampling
I have performed a search for creating a set of down-sampled data from an actual large dataset, and while there are many creative information on BioStar and other forums, I find that the most […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
SRA: Sequence Read Archive
The Sequence Read Archive (SRA) makes biological sequence data available to the research community to enhance reproducibility and allow for new discoveries by comparing data sets. The S […] -
Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
I have started a series of tutorials that I am writing from the perspective of a biologist wanting to use a Docker container for a specific application.
An easy example could be using EMBOSS, the molecular […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 6 years, 11 months ago
RE: asciinema.org (Linux/MacOS)
It may be nice to share/show commands being typed on a Text Terminal and embed this simple “movie” within blog or HTML page.
It seems that the recording gets uploaded to […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 6 years, 11 months ago
Re: pythonhosted.org/omics_pipe
Next Gen. data analysis requires many steps, that can be learned one by one, for example running an aligner such as bowtie, tophat or STAR, then handle the SAM/BAM file for […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 6 years, 11 months ago
Re:alternativeto.net
What software one uses may be the result of colleague recommendations, using “what others use in the lab,” or haphazardly found options online.
Or perhaps it is time to “upgrade” a […]
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Jean-Yves Sgro wrote a new post 7 years ago
Re: omictools.com
Finding software that is relevant to any biological analysis can be inspired by reading a paper or perhaps searching within Google.
The web site https://omictools.com/ contains 16,971 s […]
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Thank you, that’s a well-organized and handy tool. I like the idea of a “3-dimensional” classification by Technology / Interpretation / Topic
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Thanks, Jean-Yves! This looks very useful to me. I am looking for QC tools for shotgun metagenomics in particular. Several are listed, along with a review paper.
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